Police Accountability Files
Police Accountability Files
A state law that went into effect in 2019 requires California police agencies to release records relating to police shootings and other times when officers use force during arrests. KPBS has analyzed all the records that San Diego police agencies have released so far and built a searchable database. You can read our stories based on the data and use of force policies. Then search the database yourself to examine trends and view documents and body camera videos associated with the cases.
Use of force records are public because of SB 1421, a state law that requires all California police agencies to release all past and future internal records and investigations into incidents in which police fired a gun or used force that resulted in serious injury.
Discrimination records are public because of SB 16, a state law that requires law enforcement agencies to make public all past and future records of sustained findings of discrimination.
Discrimination records are public because of SB 1421, a state law that requires police agencies to release all past and future records related to police shootings and use of force resulting in great bodily injury. The law also requires departments to make public records related to sustained findings of sexual assault and lying during the course of an investigation.
