Following is a very informative post from Dunwoody City Councilman John Heneghan:
From an email received this week. John, on 11/19/2015 you sent out an email regarding the Police Daily Bulletin and transparency. Is that Bulletin available to the public on an ongoing basis? If so, how do I access it online? Not that I have time to read it regularly, but when we have an incident in the neighborhood, it would be nice to have. Pat
Pat, the blog from that date is still up and the link to the Daily Bulletin hasn’t changed and the information is still as described in the post. There is also an accompanying page that lets you search for items and arrests within the last week here. The City of Dunwoody has worked very hard from day one to be transparent in everything we do and that includes telling the community what our police department is doing on a daily basis.
In fact the information I raised in the blog regarding 17 year old offenders has come up twice in the last year where several “hooligans” ages 16 & 17 got busted for doing something stupid. The 17 year old (who just celebrated his birthday the month before) is named publicly, booked in the DeKalb County Jail with a permanent record, mug shot taken and the record is now able to be found forever on the DeKalb Online Judicial System webpage. The 16 year old is basically released to his parents and is very thankful that his 17th birthday is still another couple weeks away.
DeKalb OJS is an interesting tool. After picking a category and logging in, you can either search for people in the system by name but I usually just go directly to the “Jail / Inmate Reports” tab and pull the “DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Arrest Log” for the date of interest and from there you can see all arrest information including the mug shot.
Based on issues I have seen with Dunwoody teenagers being arrested, it may be time to once again ask Mr. J Tom Morgan, the former District Attorney for DeKalb County to speak to the community.
I believe he last spoke to the community in 2012 and it may be time to revisit the issue.
Below is the book written by Mr. Morgan that I highly recommend for both teenagers and parents. To Continue reading click here.
