NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit discovered the pandemic has caused staffing shortages at local police departments that has resulted in delays of a year or more in releasing public records of traffic accidents, putting some victims in financial hardship.
She says that as she entered the intersection with a green light, Julie says she noticed an oncoming car about to blow through the red light.After slamming into her, Moon says, the other car caught fire and its driver jumped out and ran off into the neighborhood in front of several eyewitnesses.
Without that report, Julie Moon’s insurance company will not accept a claim to fix her car. And so, there it still sits, a year later, wrecked, under a tarp, in front of her home. According to a list of complaints NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit compiled both from accident victims and from plaintiff’s attorneys, two of the most problematic agencies for long waits for public records also patrol two of the biggest cities in the bay area, Oakland and San Francisco.
Calloway and his associate, Vadim Nebuchin, both deal with these type of public accident records requests all the time as part of their work. Both attorneys say they’ve never seen the system so backlogged as its been in the last two years. To see how widespread the problem is, we sent a simple three-point questionnaire to more than a dozen large police agencies around the San Francisco Bay Area.
Now, Chambers said, traffic reports are reviewed solely on overtime. That means that by May of 2021 there was a backlog of 1800 reports waiting for review. While that backlogged has been reduced, it still remains. Chambers said that in January there were still 300 reports waiting in the queue to be released to the public and to accident victims.“I mean in general COVID affected us,” said Jeanine Luna of San Mateo’s Police Department.
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