Mr. Alfred O. Olsen

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  protovision.textfiles.com/news/crimes.txt - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/26/1993    Last Visited: 5/11/2002  

  Chief Alfred O. Olsen of the Warwick Township Police Department in Lititz, Pennsylvania, who has worked with the police high-tech crime group and its founder, said in a recent report that he became aware of the nefarious uses of some of the bulletin boards as a result of a rape case in which the suspect met victims through a computer bulletin board.To get onto a bulletin board, a computer user needs only a communications program like Crosstalk and a modem that will send and receive signals over a phone line.Each board has its own phone number and is usually maintained by its originator, a systems operator who sets the rules for access and coordinates the message traffic.Each board commonly offers the phone numbers of many other boards, as well as programs for starting yet other boards.But so-called underground boards offering illicit services require secret passwords, usually granted only to those who attend face-to-face meetings intended to weed out the police.The Limits of Expression Computer civil-libertarians like the Electronic Frontier Foundation counter that the police typically have difficulty differentiating between criminal schemes and constitutionally protected free speech.But Phrakr Trakr said he understood the distinction.

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  www.textfiles.com/news/crimes.txt - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/26/1993    Last Visited: 8/27/2007  

  Chief Alfred O. Olsen of the Warwick Township Police Department in Lititz, Pennsylvania, who has worked with the police high-tech crime group and its founder, said in a recent report that he became aware of the nefarious uses of some of the bulletin boards as a result of a rape

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  www.warwicktownship.org/Minutes/bos10-18.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/25/2001    Last Visited: 8/25/2002  

  In attendance were Township Manager Daniel Zimmerman, Police Chief Alfred Olsen, Roadmaster Dean Saylor, Code and Zoning Officer Thomas Zorbaugh, Brian Lauderman, Reid Lauderman, Ted Gress, Zach Mueller, Steve Stuart, K. Craig Smith, T. Carrasco, K. Madus, James Garling, and Matthew Stuart.

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  akita.textfiles.com/news/crimes.txt - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/26/1993    Last Visited: 8/7/2001  

  Chief Alfred O. Olsen of the Warwick Township Police Department in Lititz , Pennsylvania , who has worked with the police high-tech crime group and its founder , said in a recent report that he became aware of the nefarious uses of some of the bulletin boards as a result of a rape case in which the suspect met victims through a computer bulletin board.To get onto a bulletin board , a computer user needs only a communications program like Crosstalk and a modem that will send and receive signals over a phone line.Each board has its own phone number and is usually maintained by its originator , a systems operator who sets the rules for access and coordinates the message traffic.Each board commonly offers the phone numbers of many other boards , as well as programs for starting yet other boards.But so-called underground boards offering illicit services require secret passwords , usually granted only to those who attend face-to-face meetings intended to weed out the police.The Limits of Expression Computer civil-libertarians like the Electronic Frontier Foundation counter that the police typically have difficulty differentiating between criminal schemes and constitutionally protected free speech.But Phrakr Trakr said he understood the distinction.

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  blackroses.textfiles.com/news/crimes.txt - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/26/1993    Last Visited: 11/8/2001  

  Chief Alfred O. Olsen of the Warwick Township Police Department in Lititz , Pennsylvania , who has worked with the police high-tech crime group and its founder , said in a recent report that he became aware of the nefarious uses of some of the bulletin boards as a result of a rape case in which the suspect met victims through a computer bulletin board.To get onto a bulletin board , a computer user needs only a communications program like Crosstalk and a modem that will send and receive signals over a phone line.Each board has its own phone number and is usually maintained by its originator , a systems operator who sets the rules for access and coordinates the message traffic.Each board commonly offers the phone numbers of many other boards , as well as programs for starting yet other boards.But so-called underground boards offering illicit services require secret passwords , usually granted only to those who attend face-to-face meetings intended to weed out the police.The Limits of Expression Computer civil-libertarians like the Electronic Frontier Foundation counter that the police typically have difficulty differentiating between criminal schemes and constitutionally protected free speech.But Phrakr Trakr said he understood the distinction.

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  2002 Keystone Award Winners - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/29/2001    Last Visited: 7/7/2002  

  WARWICK TWP. - Warwick Township supervisors fired Police Chief Alfred Olsen and Sgt.
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  By a 3-0 vote, with two abstentions, Olsen and Hutchinson were formally dismissed from their duties as law enforcement officers for the township at a special personnel meeting attended by about two dozen residents, officials and media.
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  Olsen and Hutchinson were not in attendance at the meeting.
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  Myers said that the decision was not based upon the discrimination lawsuit that Olsen and Hutchinson, along with their wives, filed against the board and several police officers on the force in November.
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  Myers said that Zimmerman had provided written notice to Hutchinson and Olsen regarding his recommendation to the board of disciplinary action.
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  It was made in December of 1999," Olsen said.
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  Olsen said that in his 27 years of law enforcement - including 14 with the township - he never had a disciplinary problem, "until I stood up against this race-based discrimination."
  
  Prior to that time, Olsen said he had worked well with the Board of Supervisors.
  
  "It was always positive.I would say we had an excellent working relationship," he said."It abruptly changed in December 1999.I always felt I was accepted until then.Then I felt like an outsider in my own agency," he said.
  
  Olsen described Tuesday's hearing as the township's "kangaroo court," and said that he and Hutchinson refused to participate "because we did not want to validate it."
  
  Shortly after the lawsuit was filed in November, both officers were placed on paid administrative leave.Olsen said that the township stopped paying their salary in early December.
  
  He said they plan to continue pursuing the lawsuit.
  
  "We have a mission that people learn the facts of the case; that the township has thrown up a smoke screen," Olsen said.
  
  "I firmly believe that we are going to prevail," he added."It's a shame Lancaster County is going to have to suffer through this.Because of a few individuals, Lancaster County is going to get a black eye."
  
  He did not say whether or not they would take any additional action concerning their termination.
  
  "We're going to seek whatever remedy we can under law," he said.
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  Police Chief Alfred Olsen and Sgt.
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  On May 10, Olsen, Hutchinson and Ron Simril joined Rev. Ronald Taliaferro, president of the Lancaster branch of the NAACP, at Ray's Temple Church in Lancaster, where Taliaferro announced his organization's support of their actions.
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  The lawsuit is currently pending action in U.S. District Court, Olsen said the suit and its allegations have not changed since its filing in November, though amendments have been added to document relevant events as they occur.
  
  Olsen and Hutchinson claim that in December 1999, and again in July and October 2000, Simril was denied employment as a Warwick Township police officer, despite having the highest score on a qualification test.
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  Taliaferro said that after talking with Olsen, Hutchinson and Simril, "it's a clear-cut case, as far as the NAACP is concerned, of racial discrimination."
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  "We're determined to survive no matter what," Olsen added.He said that the way they were treated "deepened our resolve to see this through to the end.We are confident that at the end of this, our names will be cleared."
  
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  Olsen said he was "somewhat surprised that there hasn't been more outrage from the (township) residents and from Lancaster County in general about this sort of behavior.
  
  "I think that one of the greatest problems is that people are generally afraid, where their tendency is to remain silent and see how this thing plays itself out," he said.
  
  Olsen said that their termination "for standing up to do what's right," plus a legal battle that could stretch for two years, sends a message to others who might try the same.
  
  "When they look at this particular case, and they see that the people who did that were persecuted, retaliated against, and it was years before the thing was resolved... is it likely that anybody is going to stand up, come forward and speak their mind?I don't think so.And I think that is one of the most powerful issues.I think Warwick Township intended to send that message."
  
  Judge: Discrimination suit proceeds
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  On Aug. 13, U.S. Eastern District Court Judge Robert F. Kelly denied a motion to dismiss the civil action filed by Simril, and former Police Chief Alfred Olsen and Sgt.
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  "I plead with you to do the right thing, and honorable action: Hire Ron Simril, and restore Chief Alfred Olsen and Sgt.
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  "Residents need to educate themselves and then educate their neighbors," Olsen said."Out of all of this, I hope that there will be a resolution that will benefit all of the residents of the township, and we hope Warwick Township will move forward, and that the people who are responsible will have to do the right thing and step down."
  
  Olsen said that he appreciated the response they received at Monday's meeting."It was great to find this much support in the community," he said.

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  AntiChildPorn.Org :: View topic - Child Pornography:... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/16/2004    Last Visited: 4/25/2005  

  Alfred O. Olsen, Investigations of Criminal Activity on Computer Bulletin Boards, Warwick Township Police Department, (U.S.) (1992).
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  Alfred O. Olsen, Chief of Police, Warwick Township Police Department

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  Caught22 Community Column - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/17/2006    Last Visited: 10/21/2006  

  September 3, 2006 by Chief Alfred Olsen and Detective Dennis Tiessen Area: ASKACOP Msg#: 582
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  The following letter is copied verbatim, from the works of Chief Alfred Olsen, of the Warwick Township Police Department, in Lititz, Lancaster County, Pa. Chief Olsen's comments are of special interest to parents who have children involved in modeming and Bulletin Boards.Following the letter will be child behavioral warning signs and comments from Chief Olsen and myself.
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  Sincerely, Alfred O. Olsen
  
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  ***** The following comments are intended as a guide for Parents.

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  Child pornography: an international perspective - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/4/2002    Last Visited: 12/17/2005  

  Alfred O. Olsen, Investigations of Criminal Activity on Computer Bulletin Boards, Warwick Township Police Department, (U.S.) (1992).
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  Alfred O. Olsen, Chief of Police, Warwick Township Police Department

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  Child pornography: an international perspective - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/2/2004    Last Visited: 11/27/2005  

  Alfred O. Olsen, Investigations of Criminal Activity on Computer Bulletin Boards, Warwick Township Police Department, (U.S.) (1992).
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  Alfred O. Olsen, Chief of Police, Warwick Township Police Department

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