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...
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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...
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...
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....
PRI owner, Ed Claughton, in Gov’t Technology Magazine
A Houston Chronicle article, printed in Technology Magazine, about the Houston Police Department's outdated records management system and how it contributed to failures in homicide investigations includes input from PRI Management Group owner Ed Claughton. Read the...
Antiquated computer system a key factor in lost cases, chief says
By Mike Tolson and James Pinkerton Houston Chronicle May 31, 2014 When asked how the police department of one of the nation's largest cities could simply lose track of almost two dozen homicide cases, its chief pointed first to a bad detective and those supervising...