San Francisco Public Records Task Force Threatens PD With Sanctions For Dodging Records Requests
17 June 2022
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17 June 2022
California legislators finally lifted the opacity shrouding police misconduct records in early 2019. The new law eliminated exemptions, making police misconduct and use-of-force records available to records requesters for the first time in decades. Full grown adults clothed in uniforms and armed with guns reacted like children. They sued. They shredded records. They pretended they couldn’t understand the nuances of the new law. They stonewalled, foot-dragged, and otherwise did everything they could to avoid complying with records requests. But these activities aren’t limited to misconduct records. The usual evasiveness and stonewalling is still present when records of any sort are ...
San Francisco Public Records Task Force Threatens PD With Sanctions For Dodging Records Requests
California legislators finally lifted the opacity shrouding police misconduct records in early 2019. The new law eliminated exemptions, making police misconduct and use-of-force records available t…
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