#law-enforcement-accountability

#law-enforcement-accountability

Asked by investors about his biggest worries, CEO Rick Smith said: A misstep around privacy and data handling. Without elaborating on specific examples, he said: We are seeing that those are concerns right now out in the public. I think that would be one where we could make a mistake that would have outsized negative consequences.

As a two-time Peabody Award-winning broadcast journalist and the founding director of the University of Colorado Boulder's Visual Evidence Lab - and as fellows at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences - we understand how video can be easily manipulated. Even when genuine, it can distort reality by triggering our own biases. Video makes us believe we are witnessing events firsthand, but we are not.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Lawmakers and the White House offered no signs of compromise Sunday in their battle over oversight of federal immigration officers that has led to a pause in funding for the Department of Homeland Security. A partial government shutdown began Saturday after congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump's team failed to reach a deal on legislation to fund the department through September.

In other words: Just sue the violators.

On Saturday, the same day that federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis street, the Justice Department sent a letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The letter did not have anything to say about the violence caused by the Department of Homeland Security's presence in the state. Nor did it offer Minnesota any assistance in the investigation of Pretti's death or that of Renee Good's just more than two weeks earlier.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wrote the footnote in a 223-page opinion issued last week, noting that the practice of using ChatGPT to write use-of-force reports undermines the agents' credibility and "may explain the inaccuracy of these reports." She described what she saw in at least one body camera video, writing that an agent asks ChatGPT to compile a narrative for a report after giving the program a brief sentence of description and several images.

PSA: A vehicle is a deadly weapon, First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli wrote in a social media post. Using it against law enforcement justifies their use of deadly force in self-defense. Essayli alleged the man who was shot had rammed his car into vehicles driven by immigration agents trying to arrest him, causing agents to worry for their safety, and prompting one of them to discharge his weapon, wounding the man and, inadvertently, a deputy US marshal.

AB 847 gives oversight commissions the same access to peace officer files currently held by prosecutors, grand juries and the state attorney general. While many oversight panels can subpoena documents and investigate misconduct complaints, requests for officer personnel files have routinely been denied by law enforcement agencies. Without that information, they say, it's difficult to identify patterns of misconduct, understand disciplinary history or recommend policy changes.

grant access to the confidential personnel records of peace officers and custodial officers ... to civilian law enforcement oversight boards or commissions during investigations