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A searchable database of public records concerning use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers — some 1.5 million pages from nearly 700 law enforcement agencies — is now ...

A coalition of journalists, data scientists and civil rights advocates on Monday unveiled a first-of-its-kind database of internal California police files, allowing public access to nearly 1.5 million ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from nearly 700 California ...

On Monday, the Police Records Access Project released nearly 1.5 million pages of internal documents by California law enforcement.This statewide database was built in part by UC Berkeley groups, ...