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Meeting with the acting chief
Today I met with Acting Police Chief Patrick McMahon and his Public Information Officer Lt. Heather Desmond to discuss some concerns I had with the department's access to records.
McMahon had been up all night because of the shooting late Tuesday, but he agreed to see me anyway.
Due to limitations of the department's current computer system, records are sorted by case number instead of date, which sometimes makes it hard four our reporters to look at arrests from a specific day. We have found that we missed several important arrests recently, and McMahon was able to explain why when I brought up those concerns.
We are now working on a solution so that doesn't happen again.
The chief promised to take some steps to help us get better access to records in a timely manner - on weekends and holidays, for example. And once the new computer system is in place, we should see even better results.
McMahon had been up all night because of the shooting late Tuesday, but he agreed to see me anyway.
Due to limitations of the department's current computer system, records are sorted by case number instead of date, which sometimes makes it hard four our reporters to look at arrests from a specific day. We have found that we missed several important arrests recently, and McMahon was able to explain why when I brought up those concerns.
We are now working on a solution so that doesn't happen again.
The chief promised to take some steps to help us get better access to records in a timely manner - on weekends and holidays, for example. And once the new computer system is in place, we should see even better results.
posted by The Middletown Press at
8:45 PM
1 Comments:
So the police department doesn't keep a daily log? If reports are only filed under case numbers, how do they find them? And regardless of how they are filed, isn't it the law to make that information public? You would think an editor of a paper would know that and not let the police get away with this.
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