blotter

noun

blot·ter ˈblä-tər

: a piece of blotting paper

: a book in which entries (as of transactions or occurrences) are made temporarily pending their transfer to permanent record books

police blotter

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Per the Colorado Springs police blotter, officers responded to a shooting Friday afternoon. —

Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023 Here is a sampling of lesser-known — but no less noteworthy — incidents from police log books (a.k.a. blotters) in our communities. ADVENTUROUS ANTELOPE An African antelope named Mary that escaped from the Lupa Zoo in Ludlow on April 1 has spent the past month on the lam. —

Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023 The Seattle Police Department shared on its blotter that Leticia Martinez-Cosman was last seen at T-Mobile Park on Friday evening attending the Seattle Mariners game with a male companion. —

Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023 In a blotter post Wednesday afternoon, a public information officer wrote that officers were dispatched to a hospital on Sunday at about 1 a.m. and took a report from a man who had facial injuries and an arm injury that resulted from an incident at a South Side bar. —

Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021 Police blotter information is provided by local police departments. —

Daily Southtown Staff, chicagotribune.com, 29 Dec. 2020 Huggins had repeatedly embarrassed the university – from his players regularly landing on the police blotter to his bullying of athletic department underlings to his dumb comments to the cringeworthy video footage of his DUI arrest. —

Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 9 May 2023 Here is a sampling of lesser-known — but no less noteworthy — incidents from police log books (a.k.a. blotters) in our communities. —

Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023 In college football, Mullen is responsible for figuring out name, image and likeness, managing the transfer portal, overseeing recruiting, ego-managing more than 100 17- to 20-year-olds, glad-handing donors, keeping players off the police blotter and figuring out how to stop Georgia’s running game. —

Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2021 See More

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