Bluff City, Tenn. -- Before about noon Tuesday, visitors to the Bluff City Police Department Web site were directed to a different site, one that wasn't theirs.
City Recorder, Judy Dulaney, and Police Chief David Nelson both had no idea the city's main Web page linked to a site that bashed the city's speed cameras on Highway 11-E.
Bluff City's main web site is maintained by local government data processing, but no changes are made without Dulaney's direction.
Dulaney and Nelson were concerned that the site was hacked into, but they later found that since the police department Web site had been down for the past few months, their domain ownership expired. Someone else bought the domain name, and it was automatically linked to Bluff City's Web site.
"I was in the process of trying to develop another web site for the police department," said Dulaney, "so until you (11 Connects) called me, I had no reason to click on that, because I just thought it was a dead item on the menu."
Once the city realized the mistake, the police department link was removed from Bluff City's Web site. Dulaney says they'll add it again, when the new police department web site is complete.
Until then, Chief David Nelson says to call the police department, or the city, for information.
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