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We’ve been working with a group of folks working on tools for identifying police officers in real time, mostly by making and following up on 1 CPRA requests to local police agencies for their rosters, which then go into various databases, including NN35007 ‘s fabulous Twitter bot @WhosThatCop .
We always ask for name, rank, numbers of various kinds, 2 gender, and race, all of which are useful for identifying officers on the street. Most of the 40 or so agencies I sent requests to initially responded promptly and in material compliance with the law, but of course not all of them, so we’ve had to start filing lawsuits. Continue reading Four New CPRA Petitions Filed In Support Of The Los Angeles County Police Rosters Project
In 2020 I learned that the office of the Los Angeles Chief Legislative Analyst prepares briefing notes in advance of Council Committee meetings and distributes them to all the members. Of course I immediately requested copies of all of them. After more than three months of nonresponsiveness CLA executive officer Karen Kalfayan told me that (A) my request was burdensome as there were too many records involved but that that didn’t matter because (B) all the records were exempt on the (fairly bogus) deliberati
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