PRI in the News
HPD’s dropped cases raise questions on Houston’s crime rate
By Matt deGrood, Amelia Winger April 29, 2024 Article link Ever since the Houston Police Department announced it had suspended around 10% of all incident reports since 2016, citing a lack of personnel, Mayor John Whitmire has used it to assert crime is much...
Aurora Police Records Staffing Study
Aurora Police Records Backlog
by: Joshua Short KDVR.com Source: https://kdvr.com/news/local/aurora-police-backlog-down-to-400-cases/ Posted: Apr 14, 2022 / 10:16 PM MDT Updated: Apr 15, 2022 / 10:07 AM MDT AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — For the first time, FOX31 is hearing from the consulting and training...
For Immediate Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 7, 2022 In March of 2021, the City of Aurora, Colorado, commenced a routine internal audit of the police department to assess the degree to which policy and procedure provided for compliance with Colorado public records law. This audit...
Dallas police evidence loss could have been easily avoided, experts say
By Michael Williams and Maggie Prosser 6:00 AM on Sep 16, 2021 CDT Original article: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2021/09/16/dallas-police-evidence-loss-could-have-been-easily-avoided-experts-say/ While local and federal authorities investigate the loss of at least...
The Many Benefits of More Effective Records Management
Police Chief Magazine Scott Harris, Freelance Writer September 2021 Ed. Original article Time is not a renewable resource, and that’s something law enforcement agencies are reminded of every day. Among the many demands on an officer’s time, two of the largest...
Vancouver Police Department opens record division
By Andy Matarrese, Columbian environment and transportation reporter Published: January 3, 2017, 8:27pm The Vancouver Police Department on Tuesday opened to the public its own records division after 20 years of contracting out the service to the Clark County...
Police video redaction: Where big data meets privacy
Stephanie Kanowitz for GCN Mar 18, 2016 After several highly publicized cases of videos showing questionable police action, local departments increasingly are turning to body-worn cameras. Yet these systems, intended to capture exchanges between officers and suspects...
Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics Program
PRI Management Group is pleased to announce our invitation to participate in a national panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to develop a...
PRI owner, Ed Claughton, in Gov’t Technology Magazine
A Houston Chronicle article, printed in Technology Magazine, about the Houston Police Department's outdated records management system and how it contributed to failures in homicide investigations includes input from PRI Management Group owner Ed Claughton. Read the...