Police records redacted into big black hole
From Sunshine Review
December 11, 2008
[edit] Police records redacted into big black hole
"I’m trying to look on the bright side of this newspaper’s interminable battle with the Worcester Police Department over a request we made in April to release the internal records of a cop who’s been the target of citizen complaints.
Tuesday, after months of haggling, Police Chief Gary Gemme finally turned over the records. All 1,508 pages of them. But we’ll have to take him at his word that these records belong to Officer Mark Rojas, because the redactors went a little nuts with the magic marker. Frankly, I haven’t seen so much black space since the Discovery launched into orbit.
Of the 10 cases that were handed over, four were completely redacted. Every page, name, date, location, preposition and apostrophe. They even blacked out the WPD letterhead, leaving us to wonder exactly what privacy concerns were being protected. I mean, most of us are aware that the WPD exists, right?"
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