US EditionCalifornia Police Misconduct Records Now Available in Public Database
CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, AUG 4 – The database contains nearly 1.5 million pages from 12,000 misconduct and use-of-force cases, enabling public scrutiny and aiding police hiring and research efforts.
- On Monday, the Police Records Access Project database built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University went public, offering 1.5 million pages from nearly 700 California law enforcement agencies.
- The drive for the database began after SB 1421 and SB 16 passed, with 40 newsrooms starting work in 2018, taking seven years to complete.
- Reporters filed more than 3,500 public records requests statewide, and a team led by BIDS, IRP, and Big Local News built the database, with the ACLU Foundation of Southern California contributing 200,000 records.
- Families of victims of police misconduct gain direct access to records, enabling accountability, while police chiefs can use the data for vetting, and researchers analyze trends.
- As the nation’s first database of its kind, it vastly expands public access to internal affairs records and realizes SB 1421’s transparency and accountability goals.
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First Public Database of CA Police Officer Misconduct Records Unveiled
Seven years in the making, a searchable database of California law enforcement misconduct and use-of-force reports is now available to the public. The free database contains records from close to 12,000 cases and 700 police departments, shining a light into the practices of what has long been among the least transparent states in the country when it comes to officer misconduct. The state-funded Police Records Access Project was created by the Ca…
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The Independent (US)Thousands of files on rogue California cops made public via searchable database
The records open a window into nearly 12,000 cases involving allegations of sexual assault to brutality complaints and incidents involving deadly force
Searchable database on cases of police use of force and misconduct in California opens to the public
Search California public records about law enforcement use of force and misconduct from more than 700 agencies. Results are organized into cases attributed to the agency providing the records. Information about a case can change as agencies submit new or updated records.
UC Berkeley Journalism: A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
UC Berkeley Journalism: A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records. “Public records about use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers — some 1.5 million pages obtained from nearly 500 law enforcement agencies — will now be searchable by the public for the first time thanks to a new database built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University and …
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