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Records Unit Documentation: Dashboarding
September 2019 John Lynkiewicz, Records Manager Colorado State Patrol Print PDF Often and unfortunately when it comes to resources, law enforcement records units do not fare well in the scramble for staffing or funding. Often because of the nature of what we do as a...
Politics, Records and Facial Recognition in Criminal Justice: How it affects us all
Edward Claughton, CEOPRI Management GroupAugust 2019 Print PDF While in the gym this morning, I overheard a man and a woman discussing last night's presidential debate. One of them said, "I just think she's easier on the eyes; how the person looks, I think, is just...
Records Management Plans Are a Must
Brian Cash Director of Training June 2019 Download PDF Does your agency push a lot of paper? Print things out unnecessarily? Create files for records which are already in a system? PRI teaches a lot about the importance of establishing a records management plan. It...
Tech Projects: planning ahead with the right people in place
Edward Claughton, President PRI Management Group July 2018 print PDF It's 2018 and yet another tech revolution is upon us. The question is will law enforcement make the changes necessary to traverse it correctly. It is astonishing how many police agencies are to this...
Pittsburgh police purchase new systems and never implements them
Publicsource.org Jeffrey Benzing and J. Dale Shoemaker | March 21, 2018 Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert confirmed Wednesday for the first time that three police software systems the city paid for have never been implemented. Those systems are the same ones...
Does your prosecutors’ office require the “original”?
Edward Claughton, President PRI Management Group March 2018 Print .PDF Arrest forms. Booking records. Statements. Bonds. Affidavits. It's time our prosecutors' offices get with the times and start accepting electronic records. Across the country our court systems are...
Denver police acknowledge errors with 1,000 crime reports, prompting internal investigation
By NOELLE PHILLIPS | nphillips@denverpost.com | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: January 23, 2018 at 7:46 pm | UPDATED: January 24, 2018 at 2:21 pm The Denver Police Department has discovered problems with 1,000 of its crime reports, prompting an investigation into who is...
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...
Transforming a police agency one record at a time
Edward Claughton, President PRI Management Group November 2017 Collaborative reform. Consent decrees. The need for these is often based on issues that run deep within and throughout the agency, not on isolated problems that are one dimensional. They are matters which...
Aurora asks for dismissal of lawsuit over officer records given to imprisoned felon
Hannah Leone Aurora Beacon-News September 27, 2017 The city of Aurora and its former records manager are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging they released personal information on seven officers to a gang associate imprisoned because of their police...