FC: Chicago cops surf for child porn, lose Internet privileges

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: "Z uker" <zuker5 () hotmail com>
To: declan () well com
Subject: Cops in Chicago call cops in Philly to turn themselves in.
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:20:37 +0000

Maybe we should get these two police departments together and see who wins.

Cops face Internet curbs after child porn found

By Eric Ferkenhoff, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune staff reporter Gary 
Washburn contributed to this report
Published April 24, 2002

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/showcase/chi-0204240253apr24.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed

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   By Eric Ferkenhoff, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune staff reporter
   Gary Washburn contributed to this report
   Published April 24, 2002
   Chicago Police Supt. Terry Hillard has unplugged Internet access from
   most of the department's 3,200 computers after an internal
   investigation turned up child pornography on two computers.
   Officials said they do not believe there is a porn ring in the
   department. Still, the breach "disgusted" Hillard, who last Friday
   temporarily shut down the department's Internet access at nearly all
   department facilities.
   The child porn images were found on computers at the Wood District
   station on the Near West Side and the Calumet Area headquarters on the
   Far South Side, sources said. The probe has identified the officer who
   allegedly accessed the child porn image in one case, sources said, but
   it could not be learned what the investigation turned up in the other.
   No disciplinary action has been taken against any officer so far,
   police said.
   [...]

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