Dunwoody and Alpharetta have quietly yanked their public police dashboards after staff realized the portals were displaying restricted information, including identifying details about juveniles. The online pages, which many cities lean on to share crash reports and daily incident logs, run on third-party police records software. City officials say the takedowns are temporary while the vendor and staff comb through the systems. In the meantime, residents looking for incident details are being steered to formal records requests while the tech gets a checkup.
What went offline
As reported by WABE, the public-facing tools run on CentralSquare’s Police-to-Citizen platform and were surfacing information that should have been restricted. WABE notes that…..