Technology failure caused months of Stillwater police investigations to go missing
Months of taped interviews from the department disappeared after data storage technology failed
A technological malfunction could jeopardize investigations at the Stillwater Police Department, missing months of criminal interviews. “It’s not lost. It’s missing,” said Dawn Jones, the director of communications with the city of Stillwater. Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here. get that evidence back. “What we know now is that the situation, the technical error occurred in October 2022. It was just for a short period, and it only affected one of the interview rooms. So we know that there is limited data loss,” Jones said. The city could not say how many interviews were lost, but according to the Stillwater News Press, 10 months of recorded interviews are gone. The local newspaper said that data was not backed up or saved between January and October. The missing data played a role in a murder trial last week. Darrin Baccus’ defense attorney said the jury found his client not guilty because of self-defense, but the attorney said the lost evidence had some effect on the jury’s deliberations. >> Download the KOCO 5 App Five critical videos missed from the trial. “Here in the city of Stillwater, our police department is 100% passionate and dedicated to protecting and protecting all of our residents and patrons as a whole. So they will do their dead level best to, with a microscope, pull out all avenues to recover any missing data,” Jones said. The city said there is an ongoing audit by the police department and its IT department to locate the missing interviews Top Headlines Oklahoma City restaurant at the center of federal investigation into money laundering, drug scheme Oklahoma’s response goes viral after woman unexpectedly gives birth to girl after crash Rollover crash causes major traffic delays on Kilpatrick Turnpike in Oklahoma City University of Oklahoma graduate with neurological disease walks stage with service dog by her side 13-year-old Oklahoma boy makes history as he crossed the stage as a college graduate
A technological malfunction could jeopardize investigations at the Stillwater Police Department, missing months of criminal interviews.
“It’s not lost. It’s missing,” said Dawn Jones, the director of communications with the city of Stillwater.
Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here.
Months of taped interviews from the department disappeared after data storage technology failed. Now the city is scrambling to get that evidence back.
“What we know now is that the situation, the technical error occurred in October 2022. It was just for a short period of time, and it affected only one of the interview rooms. So we know that there is limited data loss,” Jones said.
The city could not say how many interviews were lost, but according to the Stillwater News Press, 10 months of recorded interviews are gone. The local newspaper said that data was not backed up or saved between January and October.
The missing data played a role in a murder trial last week. Darrin Baccus’ defense attorney said the jury found his client not guilty because of self-defense, but the attorney said the lost evidence had some effect on the jury’s deliberations.
>> Download the KOCO 5 app
Five critical videos were missing in the trial.
“Here in the city of Stillwater, our police department is 100% passionate and dedicated to protecting and protecting all of our residents and patrons as a whole. So they will do their dead level best to, with a microscope, pull out all avenues to recover any missing data,” Jones said.
The city said there is an ongoing audit by the police department and its IT department to locate the missing interviews.
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