VCSO Public Information Officer, Gary Davidson's comments on and to VolusiaExposed.Com
Updated Jan 3 2011
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Reader Comment - December 21, 2010 VolusiaExposed.Com received the following email comment from Volusia County Sheriff Department Public Information Officer, Gary Davidson.
"In the interest of accuracy, I thought you'd want to know that the allegation by Volusia Exposed that the Sheriff's Office has removed a news release from our web site is untrue. The news release has never been taken down or removed from our site. The problem is on your end in that you are linking to the wrong URL. For future reference, our news release postings remain on our home page for a period of time. However, when newer releases are posted on the home page, older news releasaes eventually get moved to an inside page on our web site. And when that happens, the URL is changed. Older, archived, news releases are posted here:
http://www.volusia.org/sheriff/press/content.htm
The URL to link to in order to access the news release referenced on your web site is as follows:
As you well know, when we were recently shown to be in the wrong, we freely and quickly acknowledged our oversight and corrected the situation. I certainly hope that we can expect the same stabdard of accuracy from Volusia Exposed."
Regards,
Gary Davidson, PIO
Volusia County Sheriff's Office
In a December 21, 2010 email, VolusiaExposed.Com provided Mr. Davidson with the following response and invitation.
"Mr. Davidson:
Absolutely, VolusiaExposed.Com will gladly correct / clarify any statements.
Thank you for the below clarification in regards to how VCSO archives its press releases.
VolusiaExposed.Com wishes to extend an open invitation to the VCSO to advise us of any other statements, positions or questions we have raised in regards to the VCSO. In the particular, we ask you to review the VCSO Tracey Veira death investigation. We are still left wondering why VCSO Investigator Campanella apparently failed to follow up on his documented observation that Ms. Veira's apparently time of death was not consistent with the jail officers documented observations of Ms. Veira. Any clarification you can bring to this matter (as well as others) will gladly be posted on VolusiaExposed.Com.
Lack of any response from VCSO will tend to support that our statements, positions or questions in these matters are accurately posted.
Again, we wish to thank you for your responses, many of our readers have voiced their doubts that VCSO (or county officials) really take the time to review our site / concerns. Your responses clearly indicate differently.
VolusiaExposed.Com
Keeping the public safety employee we trust to enforce the laws, within the law.
Bcc. -- others"
SPECIAL NOTE - as of yet (January 3, 2011) VolusiaExposed.Com has NOT received any clarifications from Mr. Davidson (or the VCSO) regarding VCSO Investigator Campanella's investigation into Ms. Tracey Veira's in-custody death. We invite you to review our concerns of how this death was "investigated" by the VCSO - after such, we ask you to wonder why the VCSO will not address our concerns.