Your guess is as good as mine.

I had a little trouble reaching him earlier today, and he called me back tonight at 10:15 p.m., with news on the investigation into that scrap of a report on the Choeun murder that was released to the public even though it contained sensitive information.

He said the investigation has preliminarily found that the scrap was released by a civilian detention clerk who was just trying to protect the bank card so that no one could see it as she released it to the son of a man being held in lockup.

He declined to name the employee, but said she was very apologetic, and that she understands the gravity of the mistake. He won't decide whether she will be disciplined until the investigation is complete.
Police are still trying to figure out why a report on the homicide was in the booking area to begin with.

Nevertheless, Lavallee said he has already restricted access to any reports on homicides to supervisors and officers directly involved. I forgot to ask him who had access previously, but my understanding from sources is that anyone could access the reports. Access was policed, though, because a record is created anytime a report is printed, showing who printed it, when and where.
That's basically the same way CORI checks are policed by the state, to prevent people from using them to snoop or dig up dirt when an official investigation is not underway.

We also discussed the city's crackdown on drunken drivers, which will be the subject of a story I just finished, and which will run in the coming days.
I won't spoil the whole thing here, but suffice to say the story addresses the fact that drunken drivers in Lowell, and across the state, have been getting picked off like crazy lately.