APD reports and Chief “Spinnington”
From Sunshine Review
February 8, 2009
[edit] APD reports and Chief “Spinnington”
"Last week, the Savannah-Chatham County Police agreed to make available to the public a list of all police reports.
The decision comes at the end of a battle with the Savannah Morning News over access to police reports. In December, the police department notified the newspaper that reports would no longer be available for public review. Instead, reporters would have to ask for a specific report.
This has long been the situation at our own Atlanta Police Department. When the APD ignored my open records request last summer, I dug through the stack of reports available for review at Central Records, and, as expected, never found the incident I was after. It has been common knowledge among reporters for years that the stack of “open” reports at the APD’s Central Records is scrubbed of most serious crime. If a reporter searches the stack for a specific report of a violent crime, as I did, there’s a better than average chance that it won’t be in the stack."
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