LAST EDITED ON Jul-10-03 AT 10:50 AM (EST)
 
The BPD may try to distance the police department from responsibility for false information leaked by unknown sources, but a case can be made that they have a pattern of ignoring Ramsey attorney requests to identify the source of leaks:

http://web.dailycamera.com/extra/ramsey/1998/22ramsey.html
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Ramsey call for probe gets little response

By Christopher Anderson
Camera Staff Writer

A charge by attorneys for John and Patsy Ramsey that the investigation of JonBenét Ramsey's murder should itself be investigated appeared Friday to have little official impact.

Boulder police and the Boulder County District Attorney's office said they will not investigate the leak of a transcript from an audio-enhanced 911 tape. The tape reportedly reveals that on the morning JonBenét's body was found, her 10-year-old brother, Burke, was awake an hour earlier than the Ramseys told investigators.

Jim Carpenter, Gov. Roy Romer Romer's spokesman, said Friday that the governor had not heard the Ramseys' request, which was sent to media. Carpenter also said the governor has rejected former Ramsey friend Fleet White's call for a special prosecutor in the unsolved case.

In a harsh statement Thursday, Ramseys' attorneys said they had not seen a transcript of the tape, and they requested that a grand jury "investigate and indict those public officials, past and present, who have leaked every critical item of evidence in this investigation."

"The public officials who have responsibility for stopping these outrages have done nothing," the attorneys said.

Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner said Friday he is confident that the source of the leak was not in his department and that it could have come from multiple sources.

He also said the Ramsey attorneys' angry letter and other criticism of the police department have lost their impact.

"This has been going on for so long that we hardly pay attention to it anymore," Beckner said.