The Harlem Valley News posts obituaries that are sent directly from the funeral home itself or retrieved from the internet. We will only make changes in such obituaries if requested by the posting funeral home. Family members must first go through the deceased’s legal representative to apply any changes. Any corrections, errors will be changed once we are notified.

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Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, The Harlem Valley News does not warrant that:

this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. [If you require advice in relation to any [legal, financial or medical] matter you should consult an appropriate professional.]

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[to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;]
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OUR POLICE BLOTTER POLICY

The Harlem Valley News routinely publishes reports provided by local police agencies under its Police Blotter category.

The items published in this category come directly from police agencies. Nothing in those reports should be construed to be a finding of guilt; they are a record of the actions taken on a given day by these agencies.

We have a few policies concerning the use of these items:

1. Police consider any incident where a ticket is issued to be an “arrest”. We recognize that people generally believe an arrest is when someone is handcuffed, fingerprinted and taken before a judge. This is not a perfect process but if a police agency sees fit to send out information to us we will post it.

2. We do not publish the names of juveniles involved in incidents, unless the police name the juvenile.

3. We will remove a police blotter item from our system only if the person involved has had all charges related to the incident in question dropped, or if the person is found not guilty after a trial and notified us with appropriate documentation. We will also remove any blotter post after a month upon general request by the individual involved.

4. We will, in some instances, remove names and identifying information of people involved in police blotter items if there is a safety or other risk to that person or others under the same roof.

5. We are always happy to amend the record of an event if the information provided to us is deficient or wrong. Notify us.