Who reviews the red light camera violations? How is it going?
A. We’re not using police officers to do that. We use civilian employees who have been specially trained to identify the violations. At the first two locations (Broadway and Providence Road and Stadium Boulevard and Worley Street), I think the number of violations is about the same as they were when it started. It may be a little bit down because people are paying more attention. We just got two more locations (Stadium and Forum boulevards and southbound Stadium Boulevard and Providence Road). Some tweaking still needs to be done. They’re not issuing citations at this point, but they will shortly. Eventually I think there are plans for 16. Q. Is the Police Department’s record-keeping system going through a change? A. We have a record management system that is probably 15 years old. It is text-based. The technology is out now to go to a Windows-based system that is much more user-friendly. We spend a lot of time writing reports because the system is so cumbersome. It is very, very diffi
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