PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORTTHIS THURSDAY MAY 30th

ALLONS CITOYENS ! !

Burlington Police Chief Michael Schirling tries to violate V.S.A. 316 and 318 and fails

According to my Public Records Requests with the Burlington Police Department, there are "19" reports with my name in them. After being allowed to view only fifteen of them Deputy Chief of Police Andi Higbee confirmed what Greta Dumas had previously informed me of in way of a $20.00 per report copy fee. Since most of the fifteen reports were just one or two pages, this would have been more than the "actual cost" of copying them. It also represented a violation of Vermont's Access to Public Records Legislation and notably: V.S.A. 316 (c)(d) and (e). So not believing our Chief of Police, and in view of the numerous and gratuitous errors in many of the reports I examined I decided to take a closer look.
After not hearing back I sent a reminder :


NOT at all satisfied, I requested Discovery and Detail on the Chief's allegations of a legitimate $20.00 fees for copies of "reports." This is was my response :

I finally got a letter from the City's Custodian of Public Records :

Then, finally, just as I suspected and yes, sweet victory !

So with this I reiterated my request to the Burlington Police Chief and this was his response :

I have yet to re examine these "reports" of me but from what I remember of them at my first examination; I'm not super anxious to find errors in basic facts such as where specific traffic stops actually took place. I'll take a look and post the reports in which "facts" I found amusing or entirely false at a later date.

The Burlington Police Department Double Dips

I think I've received at the most in my entire life maybe six or seven parking tickets ever. They have all been paid. On October 27th 2000, I received a parking ticket. I remember going that day to the police station to pay it. I remember quite vividly paying cash and the parking enforcement staff joking about how I would not need a receipt. So how many people would pay a parking ticket twice? I received a collection notice from the Burlington Police Department twelve years later saying that I have not paid the ticket I know I paid.

So I decided to see just how many tickets which were older than six years old that the Burlington Police Department was trying to collect on.

Here is my request along with the two page response I got back.

Wow ! 31,333 tickets which are older than six years old that the city is still trying to collect on totaling $775,478.86. Amazing.

Cost of Prisons vs. Higher Education

Nationally Vermont ranks second to only New Hampshire for spending more on prisons than higher education.

What's wrong with this picture?

http://www.prisonviews.com/2011/10/more-costly-princeton-or-prison.html#comment-form

ISBN 978 061 526 7548 / Vermont C.O. The Truth of Attrition by Christian Noll

http://vtdigger.org/2011/09/06/noll-self-publishes-book-about-vermont-prisons/


http://www.amazon.com/Vermont-C-Truth-Attrition/dp/0615267548/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309576797&sr=1-1

Prison Views: Reform Ideas from the Inside: State CJ News

Prison Views: Reform Ideas from the Inside: State CJ News: Links Related to State/Provincial/Country Prison News US Federal Immigration Court Fails the Most Vulnerable Detainees 10-6-2011 Wash....

The "State CJ News" link goes from Texas to Virginia. Vermont was just added but there's no link.

I'd like to add my book's press release to your Vermont listing as its highly commensurate to the state's Department of Corrections.