[TheList] FW: [Some] News media to get access to police website

Sat May 23 07:08:10 AEST 2009

News media to get access to police websiteWelcome to the Police State ;) If
you read the article in its entirety, you'll have discovered as a private
citizen NO YOU CAN'T. Best get your CV out and join a newsroom, or brush-up
on your hacking skills there Nath =)
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  From: thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz
[mailto:thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz]On Behalf Of Nath Hodge
  Sent: Saturday, 23 May 2009 08:54
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  Will members of the public i.e. me, be able to get access to this?

  From: Scott Palmer
  Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 8:09 AM
  To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
  Subject: [TheList] FW: [Some] News media to get access to police website

  See the below from Rick (thanks Rick, note the posting address for this
new list please thelist at radiowiki.org.nz )

  Cheers

  From: Rick [mailto:smithr at ihug.co.nz]
  Sent: Friday, 22 May 2009 11:24 p.m.
  To: thelist-bounces at nzscanners.org.nz
  Subject: [Some] News media to get access to police website

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  Published on Otago Daily Times Online (http://www.odt.co.nz)

  News media to get access to police website

  Created 21/05/2009 - 04:01

  Police will launch a new website for news gathering organisations when
they start encrypting their radio traffic in the Wellington region next
month.

  The new digital radio network -- to be widened to cover the whole country
by 2014 -- will stop people listening in to police communications.

  Though police welcome some unauthorised listeners -- ranging from
hobbyists, to boy racers and would-be criminals -- being blocked from
eavesdropping, they plan to offer media "filtered" access to initial
incident reports.

  But the messages released in the public interest will not include details
of suicides or insecure premises.

  Some events involving special situations will not include specific
addresses and messages dealing with routine tasks such as checking on
alarms, or bail breaches and the locations of roadside breath testing will
never go on the website.

  Some of the brief incident reports will be withheld for an hour, with
potential for incident commanders to extend that, in callouts involving
aggravate robbery, hostage situations, domestic violence, sexual offences,
and incidents involving juveniles or mentally ill people.

  "Natsec" events involving national security, and offences "against the
national interest", including terrorism will also be blocked for an hour.

  But traffic crashes, missing people, burglary and other theft, rescues and
arson will be listed within minutes.

  "Everything goes out, unless there is a reason not to," said a spokeswoman
at police headquarters.

  "But we will delay things to do with sexual attacks, children and sudden
deaths."

  Police would have to check that sudden deaths were not suicides, because
reporting details of those was limited by the Coroner's Act.

  She said media access to the incident listing would be through a
password-protected website.

  Approved media outlets would be legal entities with physical premises in
New Zealand, operating newsrooms, including broadcasters, newspapers, news
agencies and web-based news services.

  Individual journalists, freelancers, and magazines and periodicals are not
expected to be given access.

  "You basically have to have a newsroom ... publishing timely information,"
the spokeswoman said.

  Newsrooms in the Wellington region will be given information in the next
couple of weeks about accessing the website.

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