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ROTTERDAM
Town pays woman over ID mixup
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Justin Mason at 395-3113 or jmason@dailygazette.net.

Kathy Kurtzner started getting calls about the arrest shortly after the morning paper hit the street.
    Her boss was the first to send a playful text message about her name appearing in the Daily Gazette’s crime blotter for petty larceny, and other calls were quick to follow. Kurtzner was mortifi ed.
    “My phone just started ringing,” she recalled of the September 2010 blurb. “It was just so humiliating.”
    Only it wasn’t Kurtzner who had been arrested by Rotterdam Police. It was Jill Kennedy, a 32-year-old Schenectady resident who came to possess Kurtzner’s stolen identifi cation and produced it when she was accused of shoplifting at the Hannaford Supermarket off Altamont Avenue.
    Kennedy was later charged with petty larceny and second-degree criminal impersonation. But the list of arrests submitted by police to The Gazette included the names of both women, which were published together in the newspaper’s crime blotter.
    The Rotterdam Police Department acknowledged the error and The Gazette printed a correction the following day. But for Kurtzner, the damage had been done.  .........................>>>>.....................>>>>......................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01002&AppName=1