The Police Records Access Project database, which contains roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases, was jointly published this week by CalMatters, ...

LAist, KQED and CapRadio are among the partner organizations gathering and sharing thousands of documents made public since ...

Search California public records about law enforcement use of force and misconduct from more than 700 agencies. Results are organized into cases attributed to the agency providing the records.

The Sierra Club is seeking access to county property map data, which provides details on the geographic boundaries of all land parcels in the county. The county offers to sell the database to the ...

LAist, KQED and other California newsrooms, together with police accountability advocates, have published a database that houses thousands of once-confidential records gathered from the state’s nearly ...

Sacramento drivers long accused peace officers of wrongly pulling them over, incorrectly identifying them as gang members. To ...

The database includes many records recently made public through a new law, 2019's Senate Bill 1421, which makes some records public around individual officers' conduct, including whether they've ...

J.L. Needham, who manages Google’s public-sector content partnerships, said at least 70 percent of visitors to government Web sites get there by using commercial search engines.

A week after the state legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo repealed the 44-year-old state law that shielded police disciplinary records from the public, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the ...

• Consider asking for certain public records to be sealed. This official legal process closes the details of legal cases and certain other kinds of records away from the public databases.

All public assistance records require entry of first and last name for every client in the database. However, not all states require a “formal legal name.” Some states will instead allow the use of ...