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Charles L. Cotton wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:42 am I will withhold comment on the specific Exec. Orders, but I will say this much. The iWatch Suspicious Activities Reporting Network needs to be revamped to require that the reporting person to provide their name and contact information. This information should be immediately verified and if this is not possible, the report must be deleted. The Legislature needs to make submitting a false or misleading report a First Degree Felony.

Chas.

THAT ^^^
LEO resources MUST be provided to investigate possible or proven false reports.
DA's MUST assign sufficient resources to build a proper case and see it through to conviction.
State Reps MUST push for the media to cover and report on these cases.

All of that in effort to limit or reduce false reporting... The reporter needs some skin in the game. The problem is, the bar for calling it a false report has to be higher then it turning out to be not justified. Investigators need to be able to find clear evidence the false report was made with malice intended.

Order No. 8 Beginning January 1, 2020, all future grant awards from the Office of the Governor to counties shall require a commitment that the county will report at least 90 percent of convictions within seven business days to the Criminal Justice Information System at the Department of Public Safety. By January 1, 2021, such reporting must take place within five business days.

I know only the governor can truly say what he meant by this.
But as he’s not likely to tell me what the heck does that mean?
As I read it the implication is counties don’t currently report convictions that doesn’t sound right
Order number eight says they must report 90% of the convictions within a certain timeframe but it doesn’t say what happens if they don’t

And why 90% why not 100% and then on case-by-case basis when I county doesn’t meet that 100% decide if it’s an administrative error they can be corrected or a willful error or a willful act because they simply don’t wanna report some