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guest, JOEWOODS

Five out of the six incident reports that myself and two other staff members haverequ~ted in the ~t two weeks did not meet extenuating• circumstances, and Radnor Police denied us the rq,orts. The reasoning--our names were not on the reports.

As a citizen of the state of Pennsylvania, I have a right to receive a copy of those reports; it is covered in the Right to KnowLaw of Pennsylvania and the Freedom of Information Act.

l would expect a police department to know that, but when I questioned Lieutenant Tom Flannery, he told me I had no jurisdiction because my name wasnot on the reports.

Well, the law says otherwise. I am entitled to those reports, just as you the reader are.

Flannery also gave other rea- • sons for denying access to ·the reports. He said that since Loquitur is a college newspap~r and Cabrini is private, it does not serve the public in any -way. He -also mentioned that they stopped giving out incident reports for the last four or five years, even though members Qf Loquitur have used them for numerous stories this year. Oh yes, before I forget, he also said ihey do not give out reports to any newspapers and he specifi- 1 cally used the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Suburban and Wayne Times.

Well; maybe Fl'annery was mistaken, J?ut the Suburban and Wayne Times has a nice martila envelope waiting for it every Monday at the Radnor Police • station with incident reports in them, including ones about our campus. Something does not •add up here.

Loquitur is currently filing a Freedom of Information Request for the incident reports. I, personally, do not care about what is on those incident reports. If I were not on a newspaper, I would never even request one. However, I understand my duty as an editor and a journalist to give the readers the truth and incident reports solidify the truth.

I whole.heartedly believe in the rights of every citizen and while I temporarily reside in Radnor, Pa., I'd expect that its police department does also.