DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Dallas Police Department said a massive amount of information has been lost from its computer database on criminal investigations dating back to July 2020.
About 14 terabytes of the 22 terabytes lost were recovered but the remainder are believed to be lost forever.
The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said the loss occurred in early April during the data migration of a police computer network drive.
Dallas County DA John Creuzot issued this statement:
“As I stated in the memo, I have become aware that there was a data loss from the Dallas Police Department’s network drive. My office is now working with the DPD to determine how many cases are affected by the City’s data loss in April. It is possible that much of the missing evidence had already been uploaded to this office’s data portal prior to April 5, which would have a limited impact to cases. At this time, it is too soon to estimate how many cases will be affected and what the impact will be on those individual cases. Chief Garcia and I have been in constant communication on this over the past few days and are committed to ensuring justice is served on each case.”
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