The Freedom of Information Act amendment requires the police agency to provide at least one of the following: an arrest report, incident report, news release or some similar report of the arrest.
For decades, police reports about crime, and the steps taken to fight it, have been the lifeblood of community news reporting. Reporters assigned to the “cop shop” have made regular pilgrimages to police stations to skim the blotter and then ask for additional information on any incident that caught their eye.
