GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Grand Rapids appeals board has upheld a decision not to release more information about a secretly recorded police phone line and the purging of those calls.
The recorded calls from Line 3407 were discovered as officials looked into how three Grand Rapids Police Department officers handled a November 2016 wrong-way car crash involving a former county prosecutor who had been drinking. Recordings exposed how the officers worked to downplay the crash and avoid giving the former prosecutor a breathalyzer test.
In May of this year, despite pending Freedom of Information Act requests to save them, the city purged all the recordings from the line. Even after that, they could have been recovered within a certain number of days. The city made no attempt to do so.
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