Talk about bureaucratic doublespeak!
School district spokeswoman Tracy Clark said the district has provided accurate information to investigators, the press and the public as fast as possible and “any suggestion that the district is not being forthcoming is either based on a misunderstanding or misinformation.”
“The district continues to focus on responding in a timely and accurate manner to the unprecedented number of public records requests, media requests and subpoenas related to the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School,” she said in an email. “In addition, we have coordinated numerous interviews with employees as part of the various ongoing investigations. Both the State Attorney’s Office, through the Broward Sheriff’s Office, and the Public Defender’s Office have been given complete copies of the records related to Nikolas Cruz that have been gathered to date.”
Not a school district, but I worked in a public agency for five years -- a municipal building department. Each address that had any activity had a file, and any document that pertained to that address went into that file. If there was an inquiry pertaining to a particular address, it took less than a minute to go to the file area and pull that file. Why would it be any different for a student? One name -- one file.
And why would multiple requests make it orders of magnitude harder? Even if documents had to be collected from multiple locations, given the amount of interest in this case it's a no-brainer to then keep the records (or copies thereof) in one location or file, ready to respond to the next inquiry. The stonewalling is obvious.
From the second article:
The sheriff’s office is investigating allegations by other agencies that several BSO deputies, not just Peterson, failed to enter the school to help wounded students or engage Cruz when they arrived on the scene.
The shooting was on February 14. It's May 14. That's three months. How long can it take to ask each deputy who responded, "Did you enter the building or did you stay in the parking lot?" Officers from the neighboring/overlapping city police department were quoted the day after the event as saying they went past Broward deputies hiding behind patrol cars outside as they (the officers from the municipal PD) entered the building. Just ask them. This is NOT an investigation that requires three-plus months.
