Times Picayune Andy Grimm July 25, 2014 The New Orleans Police Department must pay $20,000 in legal bills and fees for withholding police reports, a court of appeal has ruled. An employee with the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center in 2011 requested reports and...
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California Ruling Exempts Personal Devices From Open Records Laws — Will It Stand?
Government Technology Magazine Brian Heaton A California appeals court ruled in April that emails and other forms of electronic communication about public business are not subject to the state’s Public Records Act if they’re conducted on a private computer or device....
Records issue: Oak Ridge Police Dept. decertified by TBI
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) annual crime report included the de-certification of eight law enforcement agencies in the state for failing to report crime data to the agency for three months. Oak Ridge Police Department is on that list, but...
Police reports going unprocessed as DPD adjusts to new records system
by TANYA EISERERÂ WFAA Posted on June 13, 2014 at 6:32 PM Related: DPD: Records management system roll out allowed 3 prisoners to go free DALLAS -- For crime victims, seeking help is already painful and difficult enough. Now, victims' advocates like Bobbie Villareal...
States Continue Banning Employer Access to Social Media
Brian Heaton Government Technology Magazine Private Facebook and other social media accounts are becoming increasingly off-limits to employers seeking information about current and prospective employees. Social media has been a remarkable tool over the last several...
Supreme Court Taking Up Police Searches of Data Troves Known as Cellphones
Adam Liptak New York Times WASHINGTON — In a major test of how to interpret the Fourth Amendment in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider two cases about whether the police need warrants to search the cellphones of the people they arrest. “The...
FL Sheriff uses Google Search Appliance to search records
Wayne Hanson Government Technology Magazine Orange County uses the Google Search Appliance to crawl different law enforcement databases in search of suspects, fugitives and information. The Orange County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office is five months into a unique project...
Bill to help Arizona police share information
D.S. Woodfill, The Republic | azcentral.com April 3, 2014 Arizona police are closer than ever to reproducing the lighting-quick file sharing that has so far only been the stuff of fiction, depicted in shows such as the CBS-TV hit series "CSI: Crime Scene...
Toxic Police Leadership
Roy E. Alston, PhD & George E. Reed, PhD Lawofficer.com In her book Toxic Leaders: When Organizations Go Bad, Marcia Whicker describes toxic leaders as “maladjusted, malcontent, and often malevolent, even malicious. They glory in turf protection, fighting, and...
Training in public records law could be a mandate for public officials
By Annaliese Davis Staff writerFebruary 25, 2014 The Olympian All statewide and local elected officials (in Washington State) could soon be required to undergo training in the Public Records Act. Senate Bill 5964 would require members of the governing body of a public...