N.J. public defender sues this county over how it keeps 911 calls, dispatch recordings
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
The state public defender’s office is suing Gloucester County over recent changes to its record retention practices for potential evidence in criminal cases.
The issue involves storage of 911 calls, radio communications, dispatch records and any other data maintained by the county that could be used as evidence.
While this information has previously been stored for years, the public defender’s office learned earlier this year that old files would soon be destroyed because of a server malfunction and that new ones would only be maintained for 31 days, according to the suit, creating problems for current and future clients represented by the public defender.