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The police transparency law, SB 1421, no matter how groundbreaking, was limited to begin with. And now, five years later, is revealing weaknesses as several agencies are finding ways to keep many of the records from the public purview.
The police transparency law, SB 1421, no matter how groundbreaking, was limited to begin with. And now, five years later, is revealing weaknesses as several agencies are finding ways to keep many of the records from the public purview.
The city of Oakland must release records it has withheld about its investigation of police who had sex with a teenage abuse victim, and the suicide of one of those officers, the state Supreme Court ruled in a case brought by two local journalists.
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The Riders Come Out at Night frames it as a hopeful sign that police reform is possible.