Even I am surprised at how optimistic I've stayed through this entire process. (And for those of you who think I haven't been optimistic, well, you don't know me. I'm a glass half empty type of girl.) This evening, I finally found what I've been looking for. And most of it came not from Edna, who I am now on a first name basis with, but from Bob High, the crime reporter at The News Reporter.
Bob told me everything I wanted to know. There are, in fact, digital forms of the crime reports. And, as Edna does not seem to entirely understand what I want, Bob offered to e-mail them right to me. He is going to send an incident report and an arrest report in an electronic format. How exciting! First, however, he wants to get permission from the sheriff, and for whatever reason, that cannot be done until Thursday or Friday. So, he is confident that I will have these records, as am I, but I will not be obtaining them immediately. Patience is key.
I then made a quick call to Edna about the police blotter. She said the only way I could get that would be to come in and ask for it, and then she would need to know specifically what I want. Sometimes she's unclear, but I think I may be too. I think we just don't understand each other sometimes; it's hard for me to say whether she's giving me good information or things that really don't pertain to anything. Anyway, she said that they index their files both as paper copies and as digital copies. (And then I wanted to scream, "Well then why can't you send me a digital copy?!?!," but she's been so nice that I couldn't do it.) If I come in, I can look at the blotter and then decide what I want. Apparently I can't just say, "Give me everything."
So, that's all I have to report for now. This week is from hell, but it's been a day of success.
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