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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...
Colorado gets grade of F for its open-records laws
By Christopher N. Osher The Denver Post Colorado's laws governing public access to information are among the weakest in the nation,according to a new report that sizes up how states handle requests for court documents, police files and other records. The Center for...
Phoenix detectives told not to submit cases due to RMS transition
Dave Biscobing, Shawn Martin ABC 15 Phoenix Nov 3, 2015 As Phoenix Police adjust to a new record-management system, detectives have been told to stop submitting cases because the department can’t keep up with its caseload. “Do not submit cases until further notice, as...
911 Screw-Up Led To False Crime Stats
BY Paul Bass | OCT 15, 2015 4:03 PM New Haven Independent New Haven’s beleaguered 911 call center failed to forward crime reports this year to the police records division, leading the city to fail to report at least 80 required cases—and counting—to the FBI. Police...
N.H. Body Camera Case: Public’s Right To Know Vs. Family’s Right To Privacy
New Hampshire Public Radio September 1, 2015 By RICK GANLEY & MICHAEL BRINDLEY Should body camera footage of a man being gunned down by police be released to the public? That’s the question before a Merrimack County Superior Court judge, who will rule whether to...
Why Quality Control is So Important in Police Records Operations
Print .PDF Edward Claughton President, PRI Management Group July 2015 “No Records Clerk is going to tell me how to write a report!” That’s what one sergeant recently said to me during a records management assessment I was conducting for the agency. Resisting the...
South Carolina sheriff says clerical error helped Dylann Roof buy gun
Reuters CHARLESTON, S.C. | BY HARRIET MCLEOD A mistake by a South Carolina county clerk who entered the wrong information on a charging document for a drug offense in February contributed to a gun being mistakenly sold to the man later accused of murdering nine people...
Phoenix Police RMS Project Delays
Earlier this year, the ABC15 Investigators exposed that the company behind the new computer system has had a long list of issues with other major police departments across the country. Before Phoenix contracted with Intergraph, several other police departments had...
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...
Report: Campus crime statistics are misleading
BY COLLIN BINKLEY AND JILL RIEPENHOFF COLUMBUS DISPATCH COLUMBUS — The crime statistics being released by colleges nationwide on Wednesday are so misleading that they give students and parents a false sense of security, an examination has found. Even the U.S....