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...accordance with Massachusetts open records laws, the log, or blotter, must list all incidents requiring police attention in chronological order, labeling each incident with an index number. But one index number was missing at the time of both the call and the arrest, suggesting that reports of the incidents had been omitted...
Harvard University Police Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley blamed the omission on human error. "The arrest absolutely should have been in the blotter," he said...
Riley said the call did not appear in the blotter because the victim requested the case remain confidential until she filed a criminal complaint...
...according to Riley, the current system cannot list confidential reports on the blotter, so the incident remained unrecorded...
Riley said the arrest would have been added to the original report and, consequently, was also missing from the blotter...