Law Enforcement in Cali

 

JIMMY NGO Staff Writer

Recently in Los Angeles several issues have occured due to law enforcement unions limiting the landmark transparency law. This is caused from police officers in California doing misconduct occurring before the new law taking place. The judge’s decision does not get put into effect until March 1, which allows for police unions to appeal and discuss with the court to stop the release of records. Ever since last year California has had the nation’s most strict protections on an officer’s personal files. California’s law enforcement had repeatedly blocked attempts to make any changes.

Multiple lawyers for news organizations have said that it is the public’s right to know about police misconduct or serious occurrences to happen that highlights a officers’ privacy rights. A few weeks prior a request from the local deputy union for a task to prevent the lease of police records, had been denied from a judge for injunctions from local police unions. Senator Nancy Skinner had formally notified the state Senate that she intends to open up records from the past as well as future records. On the other hand several law enforcement groups have discussed that it does not apply to the release of records since Jan.1, in which the law has taken place. Furthermore they argued that publicly disclosing personnel files would violate the officer’s.