When SB 1421 passed last year, it dramatically increased access to police records, including internal affairs documents related to misconduct charges against officers.
Nadine Sebai from CapRadio, Sukey Lewis from KQED and Thomas Peele from the Bay Area News Group explain a collaborative effort to collect and analyze these records for the first time. They’ll also share some of the stories they’ve already reported in the first month of this new law.