KENOSHA, Wis. — The Kenosha Police Department’s email system has reportedly been unreliable for weeks, creating potential communication problems between the public and officers, detectives and command staff.
Kenosha County Eye was told that police department employees are receiving emails only about 75% of the time. That means some messages may be getting through, while others may not be delivered at all.
Unverified rumors have circulated that the problem may be connected to City Hall allegedly failing to pay a bill for a firewall service or another technology service that helps keep the police department’s email system operating. Kenosha County Eye has not independently confirmed that allegation.
Kenosha County Eye reached out to David “Mayor McCheese” Bogdala and asked what is happening with the police department’s email system, whether City Hall failed to pay a bill, what caused the problem and when the public can expect it to be fixed.
Bogdala did not respond.
Kenosha County Eye does know that efforts are being made to fix the problem. However, the situation raises obvious public safety concerns. Victims of sexual assault, victims of property crimes, witnesses, business owners and residents may be trying to contact an assigned detective, patrol officer or police supervisor by email without knowing whether their message was actually received.
Kenosha County Eye also spoke with the Kenosha Police Department, which said the issue is tied to a transition to a cloud-based email system intended to improve security and efficiency. According to KPD, the disruption was caused by a server issue involving an expired digital email certificate during the transition. KPD officials said they are aware of the issue and what went wrong, and believe the problem will be resolved before the weekend begins.
For now, anyone who needs to contact the Kenosha Police Department should not rely only on email. Residents who need police assistance or need to reach the department should call the Kenosha Police Department’s front desk at 262-605-5212.
It is not yet known when the email problem will be fully fixed. It is also not yet known what caused the issue.
With no answers from City Hall, questions remain about how long the problem has been going on, how many messages may have been missed and whether the public was ever going to be told.
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14 Responses
Oiy. Reminds me of a boss I used to have. Penny wise and pound foolish
Mayor MacCheese 🤣🤣🤣🤣
lol 😭😂🤣
Life was better before the internet in fact way better.
This city keeps disappointing me! Between the judges, DA’s, Commissioner’s, sheriff, and now city hall! Come on Kenosha leaders, do better!
No surprise here. The city IT director, Tig Kerkman-yes that same corrupt clan— was facing criminal charges for tampering with police department emails. He actually pleaded the 5th amendment in depositions in a related civil action. Yet, he was promoted to the position of city IT director.
The mayor and city council just enables all this corruption.
This is why the KPD has there own IT staff that report to the Chief directly and not City Hall. Don’t worry City Hall refuses to pay them a fair wage even though they do work way above and beyond their job descriptions.
Can’t Kenosha County hire someone that does not have a last name of Kerkman?
You should look into how many other things don’t get paid on time and shut off such as credit cards, entire departments cell phones, the list goes on because City Hall cant pay their bills on time!
If you log into the county “Interactive Mapping” website on a phone the name or addresses of the property you click on don’t show.
Supposedly on a desktop computer it works but on a mobile device it doesn’t.
This has been an ongoing problem since last October.
Go ahead open up Kenosha County Interactive Mapping on your phone right now and look. No name or address appear. Only the tax parcel id number appears with the amount of land acreage.
Check your own home
The city (may have changed recently) had still been using pencil written paper ledger books. It was rumored that it was so the city could misuse grant funds for items that they were not meant for. How could a budget of hundreds of millions be only on paper??? Part of the city still currently uses DOS as an operating system. For anyone that isn’t old enough to see a “new” Pacer- This would have been “Hi tech” software at Radio Shack in 1983……..
All I know is I wish I could have bought the piece of property from 52nd st and 54th street 8th ave to Sheridan rd for $5.00 US currency (harbor market grass parking lot), but I was not the mayor’s brother. Oh well, at least I can park there and get a funnel cake and some home made soap.
Next thing someone will tell us is that the mayor hired a shadow LLC with no building (only a PO Box) in Florida to test the multi-acre (harbor market parking ) lot for $750,000 twice, and used federal transit funds (not meant for that). I wouldn’t believe that at all. And the Finance (rhymes with Daryl mancato) would never hide that in the penciled ledger books…..(allegedly)
Will be interesting if that lot ever “becomes buildable”, because someone (the previous mayors brother) will make a ton of dough off of that sale. $5.00 could turn into $5 million easily.
How did they communicate before email? Go back