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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE¶
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RESOLUTE DOCUMENTATION SERVICES¶
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Basis. “You are being asked to provide information as part of an investigation being conducted by the Office of the Inspector General. This investigation is being conducted pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended. This investigation pertains to job performance failure and security failure. This is a voluntary interview. Accordingly, you do not have to answer questions. No disciplinary action will be taken against you if you choose not to answer questions. Any statements you furnish may be used as evidence in any future criminal proceedings, or agency disciplinary proceedings, or both.” And there’s a waiver section. It says, “I understand the Warnings and Assurances stated above and I am willing to make a statement and answer questions. No promises or threats have been made to me, and no pressure or coercion of any kind has been used against me.” You want to take a look? Again, it’s the same form from before, but if you agree, there’s an employee signature, and an employee’s name, where you print.¶
MS. □: Mm-hmm. Okay.¶
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Great. All right. So, this is just a supplemental interview. When we spoke last, you talked about some different documentation that we could potentially obtain in order to clear up some of the things we were looking at. Specifically, we were looking into¶
And when he was released, and what would have been put on the court list.¶
The court transfer. So, when we last spoke, we talked about this daily log. This, going to show you. It’s from 8/9/2019. And on the third page, where I’ve highlighted, it says was pre-removed at 0838, when you had mentioned, during our interview, that you can’t¶
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MS. At that time, the number two. They normally they didn’t have an internal number two, but that person is the person that was in there with me because, at that time, when they would put the internal number two on the roster, they would be the person that would assist the control center officer, in the control. And they would do the counts, and assignments, and do the - yeah - the counts. The call outs. If somebody was on suicide watch, and they had a companion swap out to come out to a work detail, they would take that companion off, put that new companion on, while food service came and they would key in the food service workers that would be off the housing unit, but at that time, we only have-. If we had anybody, it would be him.¶
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MR. : So, the control should have done it?¶
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MS. : No, because what the control center officer does is, on the evening watch shift, whatever keys is not in the control center, he’ll call up to the unit as he’s doing - as he’s testing body alarms, he’ll say, what keys do you have? You’ll say, oh, I have Charlie nine, and with what. And he’ll tell you, you’ll say, I have Charlie nine with five or whatever amount of keys you have, and he’ll write that down. And then, the lieutenant will go over this at night, and verify the key count¶
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MS. : So, most of the times, if you have officers on the unit, it’s feasible to take the key count when you’re doing your body alarm testing of the unit officers, and verifying that officers on duty asking who’s on shift, so you can write their name for that post. So, it’s always easy to do it at that time. So, normally, for the officers, this would take place during, when their body alarm is being tested. And that’s normally at the start of your shift, that you test your body alarm, when you come in the institution.¶
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CERTIFICATE¶
I hereby certify that the foregoing pages represent an accurate transcript of the electronic sound recording of the proceedings before the Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General in the matter of:¶
Interview of¶
Brianna Rose Burton, Transcriber¶
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