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...accordance with Massachusetts open records laws, the log, or blotter, must list all incidents requiring police attention in chronological order, labeling each incident with an index number. But one index number was missing at the time of both the call and the arrest, suggesting that reports of the incidents had been omitted...
Harvard University Police Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley blamed the omission on human error. "The arrest absolutely should have been in the blotter," he said...
Riley said the arrest would have been added to the original report and, consequently, was also missing from the blotter...
This week's rape and assault allegations against Kirkland House sophomore Joshua M. Elster have shocked the Harvard community. Whether or not the allegations prove true, Elster's arrest has served as a catalyst for overdue discussions about the prevalence of rape and date rape on campus and it has exposed the University's ability--whether intentional or not--to suppress sensitive, yet public information...
...report of the incident and Elster's arrest did not appear in the HUPD [Harvard University Police Department] blotter and the relevant incident numbers were skipped. HUPD claims the reports were misrecorded in the blotter, a record that is public for the sake of student safety. For breaking the law--and its trust with the student body--the HUPD should be investigated by state authorities...