Deleted Logging Files

A logging recorder technician accidentally deleted 11 months of recordings made during 911 calls and radio transmissions at the Massachusetts State Police headquarters in Framingham. Officials said the tech from Dictronics Inc. was upgrading equipment under a contract with Verizon Communications Inc., and erased perhaps 1 million files of 911 calls, an 500,000 files of radio communications. The situation could put into jeopardy criminal cases that depend upon the recordings for evidence, although officials said they weren’t immediately aware of any such incidents. Verizon officials said they would investigate disk recovery procedures, although they didn’t mention what type of back-ups (to DVD, tapes, etc.) are normally made of the files.