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The information in question—dispatch addresses and suspect descriptions—had been available free of charge on the department’s Web site as recently as this summer, according to Chronicle Editor David Harris.
After noticing that dispatch addresses and suspect descriptions were no longer available online, the Chronicle put in a public records request on July 27 asking for more detailed information on police activity between July 1 and July 27.
“The statutory requirements for the creation and release of a police log do not extend to the addresses to which the police respond,” wrote Supervisor of Records Alan Cote in his letter to Harris explaining his ruling against the appeal. The CPD?...
Providing the addresses of police dispatches would require reviewing, copying and re-filing over 500 reports, about 25 hours of work according to an e-mail CPD legal adviser Kelly A. Downes wrote to Harris on Aug. 10.
The CPD maintains a daily police log on its Web site that currently includes the names, ages, and addresses of people arrested by the Cambridge police and the street names—though not the specific addresses—of police dispatches.