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Kingsport Police Department Dale Phipps, Chief of Police 200 Shelby Street • Kingsport, TN 37660 http://KingsportTN.gov/City-Services/Police-Department • www.KingsportPDBlog.com |
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NEWS RELEASE |
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K.P.D. Announces New Site and Procedures for Media and Citizens to Stay Informed |
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July 13, 2023 |
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GENERAL NARRATIVE |
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The Kingsport Police Department has always placed a high priority on transparency with the media, as well as with the citizens whom we are sworn to protect and serve. As such, effective immediately, the Kingsport Police Department has made some changes in how citizens and the media are kept informed. For quite some time, K.P.D. has utilized three primary methods of communication. These include: · News Releases · Traffic Alerts · Daily Media Reports In the past, all of these have been hosted on separate blog websites; however, everything has now been consolidated on K.P.D.’s main website homepage under the heading “The Latest” which can be found at the following link: https://www.KingsportTN.gov/City-Services/Police-Department/ News Releases and Traffic Alerts are available to everyone; however, Daily Media Reports are only available to verified representatives of the media. Citizens and the media can check this page periodically to stay informed, or for more timely notification, clicking “View More” will give them an opportunity to enter their email address to subscribe in order to receive all future posts directly to their inbox. Any previous subscribers to any of these services will need to visit K.P.D.’s website and re-subscribe. For additional convenience, all news releases will also auto-post to the K.P.D. FaceBook page here: https://www.FaceBook.com/KingsportPoliceDepartment/ K.P.D. previously auto-posted all News Releases and Traffic Alerts to the K.P.D. Twitter feed. Unfortunately, however, due to a new fee structure Twitter has recently implemented for auto-posting, it has become cost prohibitive to continue this practice. To help with this transition, the previous blog website addresses for these features will temporarily redirect to the new location on our main website. |
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RELEASING OFFICER |
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Thomas M. Patton, Public Information Officer Kingsport Police Department Professional Standards Unit 423-229-9433 (Desk) • 423-343-9749 (FAX) |