A collective of journalists and researchers, including Oakland Privacy and our research director Mike Katz-Lacabe have sued the Oakland Police Department for delaying public records requests – for years and years.
A pair of lawsuits, one initiated by journalists Scott Morris, Sarah Belle Lin, and researchers Brian Krans and Katz-Lacabe, and the other initiated by reporters Ali Winston and Darwin Bond Graham, cite records requests from as far back as 2014 that have accrued dozens of time extentions with no end in sight.
The Morris/Belle Lin/Krans/Katz-Lacabe/Oakland Privacy lawsuit is a class action on behalf of all overdue public records requests on file with the City of Oakland.
You can read the class action complaint below.
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