What this page coversThe computer-aided dispatch screens for Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach address that the Town of Palm Beach printed in answer to a 2017 public-records request: what each screen records, what it leaves blank, and which calls the production does not carry at all. It does not describe anyone present at any of them12
The productionA 135-sheet run footed on every sheet “07/26/17”, “Page n of 135” and “PPublic Records Request No.: 17-295”. The same run appears in the released files under two identifier series1
Calls printedSeven, between 21 August 2002 and 9 September 2005, and no other call is printed anywhere in the 135 sheets. An eighth call number appears on one screen with no call record and no narrative beside it23
The earliest, and the subject of this pageCall 022330228, entered “8/21/02 23:22:14”, call type “088 SICK PERSON/FIRST AID”, caller field “Last EPSTEIN First JEFFREY”, source “911”1
Times on that screen”RT 23:22:45”, “D 23:25:12”, “PR 23:25:12”, “ER 23:25:20”, “AT 23:31:27”. The screen prints no legend for those labels1
Unit and agencyOne unit, 301, under “Agency…: 001 Police Dept”. No second unit and no second agency appear on the screen1
Disposition”021 No Rpt/TOT”, read at the page image1
NarrativeNone. The function-key line offers “F11=Narrative” and no narrative screen for this call number is printed anywhere in the run12
Copies readSix documents in the released files carry this one screen; two of them print it twice14

A call type, a unit, five time stamps and a four-character disposition code. At twenty-two minutes past eleven on the night of 21 August 2002, the Palm Beach Police Department’s dispatch system opened a call at Jeffrey Epstein’s house on El Brillo Way, classified it “088 SICK PERSON/FIRST AID”, entered Epstein himself in the caller field and “911” as the source, sent one police unit, logged its arrival at 23:31, and closed the call with the code “021 No Rpt/TOT”. Then it recorded nothing further. Fifteen years later the town printed that screen, with six other calls at the same address, in answer to a public-records request, and that one sheet is the whole of what the call produced in the files read for this page.1

What this page covers, and what it does not

This page is about the records, not about the people in them. It takes from these screens only the instrument facts: call numbers, call types, dates, times, unit numbers, agency codes, disposition codes and the presence or absence of a narrative. It does not say who was ill on 21 August 2002, does not say who was in the house, and does not reason about either. It reproduces no dispatch narrative that names or describes a person, and it names no individual entered on any of these screens except Epstein, whose house it is and whose name the caller field carries in every copy read. That restriction is the page’s warrant and not a gap in it: a call number, a time stamp and a disposition code are each checkable on a sheet, and so is a field left empty.

The investigation that ran at this address from 2005, and the search of 20 October 2005, belong to the Palm Beach Police Department investigation. The property itself, its ownership and its household documents are on the page for 358 El Brillo Way. Neither of those pages covers the dispatch records, and this page covers nothing that they do.

The production

The run is a photocopied sequence of terminal screens. Each sheet carries the date “07/26/17” at its foot, a sheet number in the form “Page 7 of 135”, and the line “PPublic Records Request No.: 17-295”, printed with that doubled initial, which is on the paper and not an artefact of the released text. The same 135 sheets appear in the released files twice over, under two different identifier series, and the sheet-of-135 footers match across both.1

The dispatch screens occupy sheets 7 to 19, and the whole block is then printed again at sheets 37 to 49. Elsewhere the run carries a probable cause affidavit of the Palm Beach Police Department, Federal Aviation Administration N-number inquiry results for two aircraft, and pages of a newspaper article from Albuquerque. Nothing on the run states what range of dates the dispatch search was meant to cover, and no cover sheet, certification or search description appears among the sheets read for this page.25

Within the dispatch block the 2002 call is printed first. The six calls that follow it run backwards in date, from 9 September 2005 to 28 November 2004. The 2002 call therefore sits outside the ordering of everything printed after it, at the head of the block.2

The call of 21 August 2002

The screen is a single page and it reads, field by field: call number 022330228; “Call Type.: 088 SICK PERSON/FIRST AID” followed by the word “Police”; “Entry Day/Tm: 8/21/02 23:22:14” followed by “REVIEW 088 SICK PERSON/FIRST AID” and again “Police”; “Caller Name: Last EPSTEIN First JEFFREY”; the address and location lines both reading “358 Dr EL BRILLO WY”, “PALM BEACH”, with “Block#: 300” and “Intersectn.: TRAVERS DEAD END”; and “Source: 911”.1

Below those, the operational block. “Agency…: 001 Police Dept”. The call-taker and dispatcher fields carry the same operator number, so one person both took this call and dispatched it. The disposition line reads “021 No Rpt/TOT”, and the unit entered against it is 301. The last line of the block gives five stamps: “RT 23:22:45”, then “D 23:25:12”, “PR 23:25:12”, “ER 23:25:20” and “AT 23:31:27”.1

Thirty-one seconds separate the entry time from the first stamp, and eight minutes and forty-two seconds separate the first stamp from the last. Those two intervals are arithmetic on figures the screen itself prints. What the labels mean, the screen does not say. There is no legend on the sheet for RT, D, PR, ER or AT, and this page does not expand them.

The foot of the screen is the terminal’s own function-key menu, and it includes “F11=Narrative”. Nothing is printed under it.1

What the screen does not carry

Four things are absent from the sheet, and each is absent in a different way.

There is no narrative. The dispatch system kept narrative text on a separate screen, and the production prints such a screen for every one of the other six calls at this address. For call 022330228 no narrative screen appears, in either printing of the block, or in any of the other copies of this screen read for this page.124

There is no second unit and no second agency. The agency field reads “001 Police Dept” and one unit number is entered. The call type on this screen, on its own terms, is a first-aid call; the type line is tagged “Police” on both of the two lines that carry it. No transport, no destination and no second agency’s unit number appears anywhere on the sheet. Whether a fire or medical agency opened a record of its own that night is not something a police dispatch screen would show, and no such record was found in the files read for this page.1

There is no report. The disposition is not a blank field. It is an entered code, “021 No Rpt/TOT”, and the image confirms the digits and the slash. Two of the other calls in the block also close on a no-report code, “022 No Rpt/Asmt Comp”, and both of those have narrative screens printed beside them. Within this production, call 022330228 is the only call that both closes without a report and carries no narrative.167

And there is no follow-up. Nothing in this production, and nothing found in a search of the released files, carries an incident report, a supplement or any other document referring to call number 022330228.

The other six calls

The remaining calls at this address in the production are set out below exactly as the screens print them, with the responding officers, call takers and dispatchers left unnamed in keeping with this page’s scope.

Call numberDate and entry timeCall type as printedDisposition as printedUnitNarrative screen
04333017211/28/04 19:08:51”093 SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE”not printednot printedyes8
0503301052/02/05 12:02:44”008 ALARM/BURG-INTRUSION-PAN""034 Human Error”202yes9
0503801672/07/05 14:44:49”143 CAD File Check”not printednot printedyes10
0508501443/26/05 16:35:22”069 OPEN DOOR""022 No Rpt/Asmt Comp”302yes6
0521602038/04/05 18:30:10”008 ALARM/BURG-INTRUSION-PAN""036 Weather Related”S3yes11
0525201609/09/05 15:16:40”005 ACCIDENT/HIT & RUN""022 No Rpt/Asmt Comp”203yes7

Two of the six, the suspicious-vehicle call of November 2004 and the file-check call of February 2005, are printed only as narrative screens. For those two the production carries no call-record screen at all, which is why the disposition and unit columns above are empty: not because the fields were left blank, but because the sheet that would carry them was not printed. The narrative screens themselves show what the system held. The file-check entry reads, in its entirety, “001 update cad file”.10 The hit-and-run narrative of September 2005 reads “001 neg inj, neg desc for other 1/2”, and its second line, as the paper prints it, “002 veh was parked outside 10-20, veh was un-occd. noi”.7 The narratives for the open-door call and the two alarm calls record what the responding units found and who was at the house, and this page does not reproduce them.

Three things the production does not account for

An eighth call number with nothing attached to it. Sheet 18 of the run, and again sheet 48, is a persons screen bearing the call number 052060131. No call-record screen and no narrative screen for that call number appears in the sheets read, in either of the two identifier series, or in any other copy of the block read for this page.324

A structure that lets the gap be dated. Each call number in this production decomposes as the last two digits of a year, then the ordinal day of that year, then four further digits, and on all seven calls whose screens print a date, the decomposition matches the printed date. Read the same way, 052060131 gives the 206th day of 2005.23

A call the department’s own papers say it worked, which is not here. In the affidavit sworn for the October 2005 search warrant, the affiant sets out that he “recalled working a previous case within Epstein’s residence on October 5, 2003, when Epstein reported a theft from within his house”.12 No 2003 call appears anywhere in this dispatch production. Its screens jump from August 2002 to November 2004. The production does not say that it is complete, and nothing read for this page explains the absence; but a theft reported by the householder is the kind of call a dispatch system records, and the department’s own affidavit places one at this address in a year the production skips.

What was searched, and what was not found

A search of the released files for the dispatch field that is particular to this address, the intersection line “TRAVERS DEAD END”, returns 31 sheets across seven documents, and every one of them is a copy of a screen from this same block of seven calls. A search for the address in open text reaches 3,836 documents, so the narrow search is firing inside a body of released material that holds the address in quantity. No dispatch screen for this address outside these seven calls, and no screen for 2003, was found.13

A search for the call number 022330228 returns eight sheets across six documents: this production under both of its identifier series, each printing the screen twice, and four further documents that print it once.14 No incident report, supplement, fire-rescue record, transport record or hospital record naming that call number was found in the files read for this page. That is a statement about what this project can search today and not about what exists.

Three bounds on this page, named. Every one of the 135 sheets was searched for call numbers and for dispatch screens, and no such screen is printed outside sheets 7 to 19 and 37 to 49; but only sheets 1 to 60 were read for what else the run carries, and everything said above about the production’s other contents is said of that range.2 The page images of the four further copies were not fetched; those copies were read in the released text only, and the comparison of this screen across copies rests on that text.4 The household’s own emergency-contact sheet, which other work on this address cites, was not located or read for this page, and nothing is said here about what it contains.

Footnotes

  1. Palm Beach Police Department computer-aided dispatch screen for call number 022330228, printed in the Town of Palm Beach’s response to Public Records Request No. 17-295, footer-dated 07/26/17. EFTA02855411 p.7, printed stamp EFTA02855417, read at the page image at its native 96 pixels per inch; the same screen is printed again at p.37, printed stamp EFTA02855447, also read at the image. The two renderings are identical field for field. The sheet foot was read at the image as well, and prints “07/26/17”, “Page 7 of 135” and “PPublic Records Request No.: 17-295”. The disposition code “021 No Rpt/TOT” and the unit entry 301 are legible at the image. The identical 135-sheet production appears in the released files under a second series as DOJ-OGR-00031174, where the same two sheets carry the printed stamps DOJ-OGR-00031180 and DOJ-OGR-00031210. The caller field and the telephone line on this screen are not reproduced beyond the surname and forename quoted in the body, and no officer, call taker or dispatcher is named from it. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17

  2. The dispatch block of the production, EFTA02855411 pp.7 to 19, printed stamps EFTA02855417 to EFTA02855429, and the same block printed again at pp.37 to 49, stamps EFTA02855447 to EFTA02855459. Sheets 7 and 37 carry the 2002 call; the six later calls follow in descending date order. Sheets 20 to 36 and 50 to 60 carry other material; sheets 61 to 135 were searched for call numbers and dispatch screens, which they do not carry, and were not read for anything else. The sheet-of-135 footers are printed on every sheet. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  3. Persons screen carrying call number 052060131. EFTA02855411 p.18, printed stamp EFTA02855428, and again at p.48, stamp EFTA02855458, read in the released text. The screen’s fields describe an individual and nothing on it is reproduced or characterised here beyond the call number. The absence of a matching call-record or narrative screen was established by reading every sheet of the block in both printings and by searching the released files for the call number. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Four further documents in the released files print the same screen once each: EFTA01333459 p.7; EFTA02729035 p.2; EFTA00260438 p.8; EFTA00187583 p.99. These four were read in the released text only; their page images were not fetched for this page. A seventh document, EFTA02729039, carries screens from the same block but not this one. Each of these documents prints a part of the same block and none of them adds a dispatch screen for this address outside the seven calls set out on this page; in every copy that prints the 2002 call, it appears with no narrative screen beside it. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. The same production, EFTA02855411 pp.2 to 5 and pp.32 to 35 (a Palm Beach Police Department probable cause affidavit, cited here only for the fact that the run contains one, and quoted from not at all), pp.21 to 26 and pp.51 to 56 (Federal Aviation Administration N-number inquiry results), and pp.28 to 30 and pp.58 to 60 (pages of an Albuquerque newspaper article). Read in the released text only, and only as far as sheet 60. This page takes nothing from any of them. ↩

  6. Call-record and narrative screens for call number 050850144, “069 OPEN DOOR”, entered 3/26/05 16:35:22. EFTA02855411 p.13, printed stamp EFTA02855423, read at the page image, for the disposition “022 No Rpt/Asmt Comp” and unit 302; narrative screen at p.14, stamp EFTA02855424, read in the released text and not reproduced here. Neither the caller field nor the personnel fields of p.13 are reproduced on this page. ↩ ↩2

  7. Call-record and narrative screens for call number 052520160, “005 ACCIDENT/HIT & RUN”, entered 9/09/05 15:16:40. EFTA02855411 p.8, printed stamp EFTA02855418, read at the page image, for the disposition “022 No Rpt/Asmt Comp” and unit 203; and p.9, printed stamp EFTA02855419, read at the page image, for the narrative quoted. The second narrative line ends “noi”; it is given here as the paper prints it, and the released text renders that ending differently. The caller field on p.8 is not reproduced here. A persons screen for the same call number follows at p.10, stamp EFTA02855420, and nothing is taken from it. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. Narrative screen for call number 043330172, “093 SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE”, entered 11/28/04 19:08:51. EFTA02855411 p.19, printed stamp EFTA02855429, read at the page image. No call-record screen for this call number is printed in the run, so no disposition and no unit appear for it. A handwritten notation sits below the screen on this sheet and is legible only at the image; this page does not interpret it. The caller field and the narrative text are not reproduced here. ↩

  9. Call-record and narrative screens for call number 050330105, “008 ALARM/BURG-INTRUSION-PAN”, entered 2/02/05 12:02:44. EFTA02855411 p.16, printed stamp EFTA02855426, read at the page image, for the disposition “034 Human Error” and unit 202; narrative screen at p.17, stamp EFTA02855427, read in the released text. The narrative is not reproduced here, because it describes people at the house. ↩

  10. Narrative screen for call number 050380167, “143 CAD File Check”, entered 2/07/05 14:44:49, carrying the single narrative line quoted. EFTA02855411 p.15, printed stamp EFTA02855425, read at the page image, which resolves the call type and the narrative line; the released text garbles both. No call-record screen for this call number is printed in the run. ↩ ↩2

  11. Call-record and narrative screens for call number 052160203, “008 ALARM/BURG-INTRUSION-PAN”, entered 8/04/05 18:30:10. EFTA02855411 p.11, printed stamp EFTA02855421, read at the page image, for the disposition “036 Weather Related” and unit S3; narrative screen at p.12, stamp EFTA02855422, read in the released text and not reproduced here. ↩

  12. Search warrant affidavit of the Palm Beach Police Department, October 2005, in the town’s 2017 public-records production of the case folder. EFTA02856805 p.11, read in the released text. The quoted sentence is the affiant’s own recollection, offered in 2005 as a ground for the warrant; it is evidence of what he remembered, not a dispatch record. The surrounding paragraphs of that sheet describe a complainant’s account and nothing from them is used, quoted or characterised here. ↩

  13. Figures from a search of the released files on 25 October 2026. The phrase “TRAVERS DEAD END” returns 31 sheets across 7 documents; the phrase “El Brillo” returns 6,968 sheets across 3,836 documents, which is the control showing the narrow search is running against a body of material that holds the address in quantity. The call number 022330228 returns 8 sheets across 6 documents. Counts of sheets and counts of documents are given separately throughout and are not the same number. ↩