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Responding to recent criticisms of incomplete and missing incident reports from its public logs, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) announced changes to its log system designed to ensure that future incidents are properly reported.
Both the Web log and the printed log kept at HUPD headquarters are titled, "Harvard University Police: Press Log." The Aug. 1 incident was listed in the printed log, which HUPD says is its official log.
Prior to January's log omissions, HUPD dispatchers marked calls about sensitive incidents as confidential. According to Riley, the dispatchers did not know that this confidential tag kept all information about the incident from appearing in the public log.
This fall, HUPD will install a new computersystem that will allow dispatchers to withholdcertain confidential information while stilllisting the incident in the public logs. This isnot currently possible.
On first reading about the allegations in The Crimson (News, Feb. 3), my first thought, as well as that of many other people with whom I've talked about it, was one of compassion and admiration for this woman who is willing to endure the storm of attention and recalled...