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These incident reports—which public police forces (like the Cambridge Police Department) are required to disclose—contain statements from victims, witnesses, police officers who reported to the scene, and other detailed information about a given crime.
Currently, the information available to the public from HUPD includes the few-sentence incident summaries published daily in the online police log, in addition to the community advisory warnings sent to all students via e-mail after incidents of violent crimes.
And while events such as these generate incident reports, they are also likely to “contain highly personal information,” Wrinn says. “Within the small campus environment, the information contained in an incident report would make it easier for a person?...
But Carter says access to incident reports would also make police more accountable.
Under the new legislation, incident reports would only be released if an individual asks for them.