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...
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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...
UCR Audit
OCTBOBER 2017 What happens when one city is ranked the most violent in the state and the stats may be wrong? They turn to PRI to conduct an independent audit to assess the data, systems, code tables and reporting methodology to determine what the stats should be....
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...
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...
Records Manager releases officer info to gang member in prison
Seven Illinois Police Officers Sue City Officials HANNAH LEONE ON JUL 21, 2017 SOURCE: THE BEACON-NEWS (AURORA, ILL.) Seven Aurora police officers and their families are suing the city and a former records manager in federal court over the alleged release of personal...
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...