Cops Tracker

Projects, Tips, and Citations

• A Project is a larger issue, that will persist for months or years.
  • Each project will be simply a separate topic. The topic name will be used as the key in Tips to connect them to those projects.
  • Create New Project - Click here to create a new project.
• A Tip is a specific issue of information that is being worked for a single or multiple projects. To process a Tip, it is typically necessary to request information from government bodies and follow up over time.
  • Each tip is created as a auto-named data topic, and linked into projects by keywords.
  • Submit New Tip - Click here to submit a new tip related to an existing project. New to the process? Read How To Submit Tips? and it will walk you through the process.
  • Tips Summary - List of all Tips or filtered according to various optional filters.
• A Citation is a communication from COPs back to governmental bodies and the media to spotlight an area of difficulty.
  • A citation is the result of our investigations and may be forwarded to institutions, such as the District Attorney's office for further processing.
• A Governmental Document is a document returned by any governmental entity in response to a public records request.
  • Submit Gov Doc - Click here to submit a new government document. New to the process? Read How To Submit Docs? and it will walk you through the process.
  • All Docs - List of all Govermental Documents submitted.

Related

• All Projects -- Projects persist for a period of time and may involved a number of Communications, Tips, and Documents.
  • Project Form | Project Topic Template | Project Topic Header
• All Coms | Add Com -- Communications with single entities about one or more Tips and one or more projects.
  • Com Form | Com Topic Template | Com Topic Header
• All Tips | Add Tip -- Each tip is a single informational investigation.
  • Tip Form | Tip Topic Template | Tip Topic Header | Cops Tips Include
• All Docs | Add Doc -- More or more documents may be the result of a Tip request.
  • Doc Form | Doc Topic Template | Doc Topic Header
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-- Raymond Lutz - 25 Jun 2008