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This e-mail came from Commissioner Brown. At least she has her priorities straight and is always forthcoming with township residents. Would that ALL followed her excellent lead...if you live in Lower Merion, does your commissioner keep you apprised of things like this?
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The more I hear about Jenny Brown the more I like her. SAC has been invaluable for keeping tabs on the activities and connections of the commissioners. I wonder if anyone of you on SAC has thought about developing a rating system for commissioners on their transparency, forthrightness with the public, accessibility, etc.? It could involve a questionnaire or an analysis of voting records. Sort of like the flier I just got from PennEnvironment, rating state reps and senators. Perhaps easier said than done.
How can we get the "police blotter" which I understand to be a list of all incidents. It is in electronic format/ The Police Blotter is available under Pa. Right to Know law
http://openrecords.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/open_records/4434 2009 0076 Gilliland-PSP.pdf
In its letter, the PSP Pennsylvania State Police “concede[s]: ‘police blotters’ and equivalent law enforcement records are public records. 65 P.S. § 67.708(b)(16) & 18 Pa.C.S. § 9104(b). A ‘police blotter’ is defined in the Criminal History Records Information Act (CHRIA), 18 Pa.C.S. §§ 9101-9183, as a ‘chronological listing of arrests, usually documented
Prior to his request, Gilliland received a Public Information Release Report from the PSP with the names of the victims and individuals charged redacted.
contemporaneous with the incident, which may include, but is not limited to, the name and address of the individual charged and the alleged offenses.’ 18 Pa C.S. § 9102. (Citation omitted). Yet, the PSP neither maintains a police blotter nor any other record that equates with a contemporaneously-entered chronological listings of arrests.”
Bob, could you try to use some HTML code and not use raw links? Check
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L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers/Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.–Jean Jacques Rosseau. The Social Contract, 1762
I looked at this formatting. How do I do this?
Best way is to teach yourself.
Google "basic html" and spend some time on a tutorial.
In the computer/internet age, it is good knowledge to have and takes away the mystery of how some things work online.
Note that on this site for posts you don't need a title or headings as it is already pre-formatted, but the link Doug gave above for formatting specific to posts on this site will make sense when you learn some basic HTML.
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~ As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
More folks need to get on Twitter. Twitter is awesome for getting things like this out quickly.
I'd love to see the Lower Merion Police Department on Twitter, for example. (Anyone got any contacts there I can talk to?)
Just drop an email to Chief Mike McGrath.
It's assuming he uses his first initial and last name, like all other township employees and the previous police chief.
I will say that I think there has been an improvement in the short tenure of McGrath, but there is still a long ways to go.
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~ As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Thanks to Jenny for notifying citizens of this as the police reports in our local papers all to often seem lacking in any serious crimes, but you later find out they were committed by talking to members of the community.
And, I don't blame the papers as Main Line News Media states they only print what the police give them. Meanwhile, if citizens are not aware of a dangerous crime pattern in their neighborhood, they may not take extra precautions and become victims because crimes are not properly reported to our newspapers. Why? To make it look like we live in a perfect community with perfect police departments.
I have addressed my concerns about this to all Lower Merion commissioners in the past and have been ignored (my commissioner is Phil Rosenzweig).
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~ As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.