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Johnson said he hopes that community policing by Harvard will grow to the point where the department can reserve some police officers as ombudsmen for the Cambridge community, acting to help residents resolve persistent problems or annoyances--such as safety hazards--in their areas...
Shortly after dawn late last week, the ramrod-stiff figure of General Fabian Ver, the armed forces Chief of Staff, arrived at a govern ment office building in downtown Manila to surrender himself. Two days earlier the Tanodbayan--a four-member panel of ombudsmen--had indicted Ver, 24 other members of the military and one civil ian for their alleged involvement in the 1983 murders of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. and of Rolando Galman, the man said by the military to have killed Aquino. Ver brought $1,600 to post as bail, then left before any photographers showed...
...provide a further court of review, more than two dozen newspapers have appointed ombudsmen or "reader representatives." Some news executives argue that having an ombudsman shunts complaints aside. Says Editor James Gannon of the Des Moines Register: "The person who should handle the complaints is the editor, not someone in a corner with no real power." Others contend that editors are too busy and too closely tied to their staffs to be able to handle complaints thoroughly. Most critics of the press agree with James Atwater, a former TIME senior editor who is dean of the University of Missouri School...
Only about 30 of more than 1,700 daily papers have ombudsmen. Those given the job are apt to be experienced newspaper hands like Jones, who was his paper's city editor. In a recent speech in Phoenix, he asked fellow editors to heed the eight complaints he hears most often from the public...
Lyss said that although he visited a few interesting workshops on developing student ombudsmen and lobbying techniques, many did not have any practical signifies on the Harvard...