Cop Who Killed Tamir Rice Briefly Hired by Small Pennsylvania Town
After community outrage and the mayor saying he wasn't told about Timothy Loehmann's policing background, the officer withdrew his application.
After community outrage and the mayor saying he wasn't told about Timothy Loehmann's policing background, the officer withdrew his application.
"The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children."
Transparency advocates say police could invoke a notorious loophole that allows them to hide records of deaths in custody and police killings.
They shot and killed a man they were trying to evict. Doesn’t the public have the right to know who they are?
New SIGAR findings shine a light on America’s dysfunctional efforts to train the Afghan National Police, which “actually contributed to increasing criminality” in Afghanistan.
The judicial conference endorses making PACER searches free for non-commercial users.
The ACLU of Northern California is suing to overturn the ordinance.
Irvington Township says it's being bullied by 82-year-old Elouise McDaniel and is asking a court to block her from filing public records requests.
Lack of participation from police departments has stymied the FBI's national use-of-force database for the past three years, but FBI Director Christopher Wray said a required threshold has finally been met.
Three years since it launched, an FBI data collection program on police use-of-force incidents has yet to gain enough participation to release any statistics.
All of this is a transparent effort to stop lawsuits from those who have been tortured.
In a program separate from the ones disclosed by Edward Snowden, we see more mass secret domestic data collection.
New administrations usually issue memos on transparency. The Biden administration has ignored calls to do so.
Defense lawyer Amy Phillips is suing over what she calls the department's "watchlist policy."
Do Americans have a right to know the extent that the government surveils them?
Art Acevedo provoked many complaints, but they paled in comparison to his prior record of negligence and obliviousness.
The Fairfax County School Board took legal action to cover up its own mistake.
How big is the defection from government schools in the country's largest district? That's for politicians to know, and you to find out.
Whistleblowers and publishers are crucial for keeping government officials reasonably honest.
The COVID-19 adviser's unsatisfying explanation of his conversion feeds skepticism about the value of a sensible precaution.
State investigators say shooting justified because Andrew Brown Jr. drove toward law enforcement to escape arrest.
Will the public ever see why deputies shot Andrew Brown?
Blame the media for running anonymous sources, but don't let government off the hook for its secrecy and misinformation.
Poorly written “Marsy’s Law” may keep citizens from knowing which officers are using deadly force on the job.
Reason is still waiting on public records related to the shooting after a judge blocked its requests until the investigation was completed.
The 2nd Circuit rejected the police unions' arguments that disclosure would invade officers' privacy and put them in danger.
The move is similar to what's known as a "reverse FOIA" lawsuit, which forces the requester to go to court to defend his right to access public records.
The federal judiciary should not be charging for access to public court records.
The PACER database is antiquated and expensive to access, and that's just the way the federal judiciary likes it.
It's an improvement over the status quo. But time will tell how frequently the feds try to suppress important footage.
Transparency is only for the little people, it would seem.
Expansive and expensive government programs represent irresistible temptations for sticky-fingered crooks.
With the right freedom of information and use policies, wearable cameras could still be a powerful weapon to increase transparency.
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
Tensions are high over the weekend shooting of two deputies.
The unions argued that releasing unsubstantiated complaints would harm officers' reputations and threaten their safety.
Just like millions of their fellow Americans, the justices would have to adjust to the strange new realities of social distancing and working from home.
A federal judge gags the New York Civil Liberties Union, but a media outlet manages to collect and publish a database of misbehaving cops.
And Sen. Tim Scott (R–S.C.) says policing reform in Congress might not be dead after all.
Efforts to force sunlight into police conduct have been thwarted by noncompliance.
It's been nearly four months since a Maryland SWAT team killed Duncan Lemp, and there's been no transparency.
Members of Congress may have benefited from small business funds, and government watchdogs are warning that the program appears susceptible to fraud.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says that information is confidential. Government watchdogs say that excuse is bogus.
New York was a national outlier in hiding police misconduct records. The state legislature finally repealed the law responsible for it.
If Art Acevedo had any shame, he would be engaging in less grandstanding and more introspection.
From tighter use-of-force rules to eliminating qualified immunity, here are some reforms that could make a real difference.
Would you be surprised if you learned the former district attorney was caught leasing an SUV with asset forfeiture funds?
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