D.C. police lose track of 1,500 records requests
The District of Columbia police department allowed more than 1,500 open records
requests to “slip through the cracks” — an unacceptable record that flies in the
face of D.C.’s open government laws, a leading D.C. Council member said.
Phil Mendelson, D-at large, sent a letter to newly confirmed police Chief
Cathy Lanier, demanding that her department account for its handling of Freedom
of Information Act requests. According to the police department’s own records,
officials lost track of some 1,500 requests in fiscal 2005 and 2006. The
department replied to less than one out of every seven FOIA requests it received
in those years, Mendelson’s letter states.
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