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  • Police accountability: Statewide media coalition pushing hard to acquire police records

    Sukey Lewis Thomas Peele Alex Emslie

    March 19, 2019 |

    San Jose Mercury News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A new California law requiring that police departments make public their records of police officers' misconduct revealed numerous cases that had not been known before. Police unions and state and local governments sought protection in the courts from having to disclose the records, but when they lost those challenges the records began coming out. The California Reporting Project formed as a coalition of news organizations statewide that have teamed up to make full use of the new transparency law. The project filed hundreds of records requests seeking more disclosures.

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  • Inside A California Anti-Crime Experiment That Resonates With Politicians In D.C.

    Sukey Lewis

    February 23, 2016 |

    American University Radio (WAMU) |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    With homicides up 50 percent last year, the D.C. Council is backing a controversial new crime bill aimed at stopping the violence. It’s modeled in part on a 9-year-old program in Richmond, California. Each year, 50 young men at risk for violence are paid to put down their guns. (1st of a 3 part series)

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