This post is about four CPRA petitions filed recently by LACCLA on behalf of the Los Angeles Sunshine Coalition. If you want to skip the nonsense you can go straight to the petitions: Los Angeles World Airports, South Pasadena, Monrovia, and Torrance.
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 on1 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.
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