Computer Glitch Affecting Access to Police Reports

A computer glitch in updated software at the East Ridge Police Department is preventing public access to police reports.

Readers of East Ridge News Online may have noticed that “Police Briefs” have not been available for the past few days. The reason is that ERPD has not been able to make available police reports to the public or the media.

According to clerks at the police department, the glitch has been addressed and reports will once again be made available to the public, perhaps as early as tomorrow. Clerks said that the reports that will be made available will be ones that were taken last week by officers.

It may be several days before more timely reports will be produced for public and media consumption.

East Ridge News Online will do everything it can to provide its readers with information about daily law enforcement activities in our city.

For 2016 statistics on crime in East Ridge you may click here for the TBI Crime in Tennessee report.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.