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Portland crime victims wait for months for police reports due to backlog
by Chris Liedle, KATU News Saturday, April 29th 2017 PORTLAND, Ore. — Joe Trovato waited four months to receive his police report from Portland police. The process was almost more painful, he says, than the injuries he suffered after he was hit by a car while crossing...
read moreFL Bill would automatically seal arrest records
TALLAHASSEE BY STEVE CONTORNO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau May 5, 2017 More than 2.7 million criminal records will be sealed and the arrest records of hundreds of thousands of people will be concealed under a bill heading to Gov. Rick Scott’s desk. An open records...
read more400+ citations issued for public records problems
Jessie Balmert , jbalmert@enquirer.com Published 12:06 a.m. ET March 12, 2017 COLUMBUS - What happened in that crash? How is City Council spending your money? Public documents detail the answers, but dozens of Ohio's officials, including those at 23 governments in...
read moreLegislation targets viewing of police body camera footage
By: Mike Vasilinda | Capitol News Service March 16, 2017 TALLAHASSEE, Fl.a (WCTV) -- A House committee voted 17 to 0 to allow police officers to view footage from their body cameras before submitting reports or responding to complaints. House Bill 305 would give local...
read moreNew efforts launched to change Colorado’s Open Records Act
Dailyprogress.com February 4, 2017 A Democratic senator is trying again to modernize Colorado's Open Records Act with a bill that would require government agencies to release public records in searchable data formats, like Excel spreadsheets, that are easy for the...
read moreArbitrator: Martin County broke public records law
tcpalm.com Feb, 27, 2017 The county has settled a portion of the larger Lake Point rock mine lawsuit as an arbitrator found that the county "failed to take public records requests seriously," court records show. Lake Point, just east of Lake Okeechobee, sued the...
read moreGot an RMS that isn’t used as it should be?
Edward Claughton, President PRI Management Group February 2017 Print .PDF Investment in a records management system can range from as low as $35,000 for a very small agency up to millions for a large one. So with this expenditure, why do so many agencies not use the...
read moreReport: Police Violated Open-Records Law in Russellville Bodycam Case
wkyufm.org Associated Press January 25, 2017 The Kentucky attorney general's office says state police violated the state's open-records law by refusing to turn over a copy of body camera video from the fatal shooting of a suspect by municipal police. In the opinion...
read moreLaw Enforcement is Failing at Crime Reporting
Edward Claughton, President PRI Management Group November 2016 Print article .PDF At the center of the law enforcement profession is the proper reporting of crime. Doctors report medical data, schools report student data and police report crime data. Law enforcement...
read moreMiami Beach Sued over FB/Twitter Blocked Comments
Grant Stern is a mortgage broker, radio broadcaster and the executive director of PINAC News, a national police accountability site—and he’s suing the city of Miami Beach and its mayor under Florida’s sunshine law to obtain some of the mayor’s tweets and his Facebook...
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