I am dumbfounded that anyone in Haines would want to recall assembly members because they asked that the police blotter be reinstated in the Chilkat Valley News. Alaska Statute 40.25.120.6 states that that information is public. There are six exceptions to what can go in the blotter, but making the police department “look silly” – which was police chief Heath Scott’s initial stated reason for withdrawing it – is not one of them.

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