GALT — If you have ever had a computer crash on you or lost what you were working on and what you had saved you know “crisis” may not be too strong a word.
“You lose all your data, that’s a crisis. So in managing other crisis, whether it’s man-made or natural, my job is to make sure I’m the calmest guy in the room and just try to get the facts,” said Galt Police Chief Tod Sockman.
On Aug. 7, the system that Galt police officers use to write and save reports crashed.
“Systems crash. I mean, it happens,” Sockman said. “It happens in business, it happens in police departments, it happens at cities. I mean it just happens.”
But when it happened at the Galt Police Department the city’s Information Technology staff realized a year and a half worth of data had not been saved where it was supposed to be saved.
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