The village of Homewood recently posted police department policies on its website, and officials said the move was part of a larger project to increase transparency and improve communication.
"We all know our policies and procedures and how we do things and why we do things, but our community might not," said Jennifer Quirke, Homewood's marketing director. "It's providing us another way to be transparent, which is what we always strive to do in the first place . . .
