Ex-South Bend chief says phone recordings routine - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

Ex-South Bend chief says phone recordings routine

Posted: Updated:
SOUTH BEND -

The former police chief in South Bend says the high-ranking officers who claim he wrongly recorded their phone calls knew that the department's phone lines had been routinely recorded for years.

The controversy over those recordings led in March to the city's mayor demoting Darryl Boykins from the chief's position.

The South Bend Tribune reports Boykins says in federal court documents that all city officers signed an acknowledgement that they had no privacy rights while using department phones.

The lawsuit filed last month claims Boykins ordered the recordings to determine whether division chiefs were personally loyal to him. A former department official says the recorded conversations captured racist slurs about Boykins, who is black.

(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

Powered by WorldNow
Links to the FCC website to view WTHR and/or WALV’s on-line public inspection files:
WTHR: https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/WTHR   ||   WALV: https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/WALV
Individuals with disabilities may contact Jill Pursell at publicfile@wthr.com, or 317.655.5602, for assistance with access to the public inspection files.
Powered by WorldNowAll content © Copyright 2000 - 2013 WorldNow and WTHR. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.