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WARNING - SQLite locked during Havre roster ingest (attempt 4/5); retrying in 3.0s: database is locked

When
06/17/26
00:31
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:03,252

19:57:03,252

INFO - Facebook auto-queued 1 audited post(s) for text blotter #605

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:03,243

19:57:03,243

INFO - Blotter auditor: 1 post(s) audited, 0 flagged for review

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:03,242

19:57:03,242

INFO - Audited post #557: PASS, 0 PII flags

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:03,241

19:57:03,241

ERROR - Claude audit API error: Error code: 400 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'message': 'Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credi…

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:03,240

19:57:03,240

INFO - HTTP Request: POST https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request"

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:03,097

19:57:03,097

INFO - Generated 1 posts for text blotter #605

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:03,096

19:57:03,096

INFO - generate_posts(blotter_id=605): created 1 digest post

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:03,085

19:57:03,085

INFO - HTTP Request: POST https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request"

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:02,342

19:57:02,342

INFO - ✅ Text blotter #605 complete: 17 incidents indexed

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:02,335

19:57:02,335

INFO - Created text blotter batch #605

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:02,334

19:57:02,334

INFO - Skipped 2 duplicate incident(s) before insert for text blotter

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:02,323

19:57:02,323

INFO - Text blotter: county=Hill, incidents=19

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:57:02,305

19:57:02,305

INFO - Processing text blotter from email body

When
06/16/26
19:57
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:56:43,590

19:56:43,590

INFO - Havre roster published to jail_bookings: message_id= <CO6PR22MB2579E9C3AD15412718C7AD74AAE52@CO6PR22MB2579.namprd22.prod.outlook.com> filename=JAILROSTER.docx county=Hill

When
06/16/26
19:56
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:56:43,589

19:56:43,589

INFO - Havre roster ingested: filename=JAILROSTER.docx fetched=35 new=0 updated=35 missing=35

When
06/16/26
19:56
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:56:43,576

19:56:43,576

INFO - Parsed 35 records from HCSO roster docx: /root/montanablotter/uploads/20260616_JAILROSTER.docx

When
06/16/26
19:56
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:56:43,545

19:56:43,545

INFO - Havre roster DOCX saved: message_id= <CO6PR22MB2579E9C3AD15412718C7AD74AAE52@CO6PR22MB2579.namprd22.prod.outlook.com> filename=20260616_JAILROSTER.docx path=/root/montanablotter/uploads/20260616_JAILROSTER.docx roster_date=2026-06-16

When
06/16/26
19:56
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:56:43,543

19:56:43,543

INFO - Routing Havre PD roster email to jail_bookings pipeline: subject='JAILROSTER - 6/16/26' sender='reichl <reichl@hillso.org>'

When
06/16/26
19:56
Location Unknown
County Hill
19:55:44,252

19:55:44,252

INFO - Havre roster ingested: filename=JAILROSTER.docx fetched=38 new=0 updated=38 missing=35

When
06/16/26
19:55
Location Unknown
County Hill
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