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The RegJIN Project: a major RMS project gone wrong
Edward Claughton President, PRI Management Group September 2017 $12.6M spent. $6M over budget. 4 years late. 43 law enforcement agencies impacted. Decline in service to the public. And most importantly, officer and citizen safety called into question. This is the...
Applying for NCS-X Grants
Edward Claughton, President PRI Management Group February 2017 Print .PDF In the past year or so, PRI has received several calls from agencies seeking grants related to converting to NIBRS through the NCS-X initiative. Accordingly, we are sharing the guidance we...
Providence police: Dept. clerk sold accident reports to chiropractor hunting for patients
By Amanda Milkovits Journal Staff Writer Providence Journal PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A clerk in the Providence Police Department’s records bureau is accused of illegally providing accident reports to a local chiropractor. Chief Hugh T. Clements Jr. said Rosmery Garcia, 36,...
VT Supreme Court to decide if private emails/texts can be public record
By Morgan True, VTDigger.org MONTPELIER — Vermont Supreme Court justices peppered both sides with questions at a hearing Wednesday in a public records case with far-reaching consequences for government transparency. The central issue is the application of the state's...
First Amendment expert: DPD public records dispute ‘raises significant suspicion’
Tony KovaleskiDenver7News 7:32 PM, Mar 17, 2017 3:36 PM, Mar 22, 2017 DENVER -- A top advocate for open records in Colorado says he supports the Denver district attorney’s decision to investigate whether Denver police administrators violated the state’s open records...
FL 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...
New 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...
Arbitrator: 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...
On report writing: who is “this officer…”?
PRI Management Group August 2016 It's 2016 and we're still talking about police reports written in the 3rd person. After reading literally thousands upon thousands of police reports in our work as police records consultants and auditors, we've seen our fair share of...
Fresno police break ranks with other departments by releasing shooting video from body cameras
LA Times Kate Mather, Cindy Chang The cellphone video shows a man’s life ending violently at the hands of Fresno police officers, who shoot him twice as he lies on the ground. There are no words exchanged, no why – only the brutal end. The recording, filmed by a...