A close-up of police lights. The Justice Information Commission says about 15% of law enforcement agencies in the state have not reported crime statistics, and are planning to summon them to the commission for questioning. (Getty)
The Alabama Justice Information Commission said Thursday that dozens of jurisdictions in the state have not yet reported incidents of crime, and plan to pressure local law enforcement agencies for the numbers.
Members of the Alabama Justice Information Commission Thursday voted to summon police departments, sheriffs’ offices and other law enforcement agencies before the commission to explain why they have not electronically submitted their monthly crime data to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, at the risk losing access to a criminal justice information database used to review the information of people they detain as part of their operations…