Peter Jamison reports:
Internal investigators say a Clearwater police commander used a law enforcement database more than 100 times during a two-year period for “questionable” purposes, inappropriately looking up personal information about individuals including his ex-wife’s boyfriend, a television news reporter and the wives of other police officers.
A summary of the internal investigation, obtained by the Tampa Bay Times, shows that Lt. Richard Crean of the Clearwater Police Department searched the Florida Driver and Vehicle Information Database, commonly called DAVID, to obtain information about 54 people without an obvious connection to law enforcement work.
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So… is a 5-day suspension and a demotion sufficient consequences for such misuse of a state database? What do you think?