Was there a shooting in Woodstock during the past few days, the news of which hasn't reached the public yet?
This afternoon I was asked whether I had heard of the shooting on Sheila Street. Sheila Street is on the north side of Woodstock and runs east from Route 47, just south of the McHenry County Government Center. Housing is mixed there - apartments and houses.
The word to me was the someone had tried to break in and was meet by gunfire. Possibly on Monday of this week. This is Thursday.
Does anyone know about this?
And where is the follow-up news on the armed robbery at Sunrise convenience store on McHenry Avenue (Route 120) in Woodstock? Was there a videotape or digital recording from a security camera? Isn't there a decent description of the perps by now?
Should the Woodstock Police Department maintain a daily blotter in the lobby at the police station, where anyone can walk in and read what has been happening in the City?
The Sheriff's Department has one for the County, but you have to enter the Government Center and know to go to the administrative office of the Sheriff's Department to read it.
You never know who is interested…
3 months ago
2 comments:
Sure is confusing, Gus, you're right. How would anyone ever know - if they wanted to read the daily blotter for the sheriff's office - that they would have to actually go into the county building, find the sheriff's office and read the damn thing. I'll bet there are tons of people who'd like to read it and waste much of the day looking for it at Building & Zoning or maybe even over at the health department.
mike, my point was, as I'm sure you could have guessed, is that, because the Sheriff's Dept. is located inside the Government Center, where you must pass through Security, it makes it more than inconvenient to go and find out what's going on in the County.
It would be a simple matter for both the MCSD and the Woodstock Police Dept. to put their crime reports ("blotters") online. Surely, the fact that the rest of the world is now in the 21st Century must have reached both organizations by now.
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