07/23/08 Will Lindy Urso Seek Police Department Computer Forensic Records Showing Who Has Modified Or Downloaded A Certain Police Department File?

If Sherlock Holmes were alive today, he would surely be a master of computer forensics. Just as he sometimes used his chemistry set in the 19th Century to analyze clues, today he would using computer logs and forensics.

HEADLINES:

20 employees of the department who might have been in a position to print the report have been interviewed.

Ridberg says police are still conducting an internal investigation of the matter and are waiting to interview officers who have been on vacation.

QUOTES:

"Right now, all indications are that the report was obtained through the court system," Greenwich Police Cheif David Ridberg said. "It appears that a co-defendant or family member received a copy of the report and that, in turn, ended up being available in the public forum."

STORY:

Chief: Teen report "probably" obtained legitimately

Neil Vigdor

Article Launched: 07/23/2008 02:32:11 PM

Police Chief David Ridberg said Wednesday that it was "unlikely" that a cop or a civilian employee of his department was the source of a criminal report circulating in Riverside on a teen who helped build a controversial Wiffle ball field there.

The criminal report related to alleged May 2008 burglaries of fireworks from a local resident by the teen, who is under 18.

While the law prohibits the police department from releasing information on juvenile cases, Ridberg said victims and defendants in crimes involving those under age 18 can request access to such reports through the courts....

...Ridberg declined to elaborate further on how copies of the report would have gotten into the hands of residents in the Riverside neighborhood where the teen and several friends built the field on a municipal-owned lot that the town shut down on Friday...

...The family of the teen named in the report has retained local attorney Lindy Urso to represent them in the matter, saying they were advised by the police to seek legal advice regarding the civil ramification's of the report's release.

"Obviously, the family is outraged," Urso said.

The parents, who Greenwich Time is not naming because that would reveal the identity of the juvenile, have said that the burglary charges against their son were pleaded down to a trespassing charge.

"Our law protects the identity of children so that they're no permanently scarred by a single youthful indiscretion," Urso said. "If the police do not get to the bottom of this, we certainly will."

Asked whether his clients accept the initial findings of the police, Urso said, "I have confidence that this police chief will do all that he can to get to the bottom of this."

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Comment From Greenwich Roundup:

The police department seems to be failing to do a proper internal investigation.

It only take minutes to search police department computer logs from May 2008 until today.

Police investigators should almost instantly know if the juvenile police file was downloaded and who would have downloaded any report.

Please see:

07/22/08 Police Chief David Ridberg said that discplinary actions and possible criminal charges may be filed if a Greenwich Police Officer is involved

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