EFF sues police standards agency to obtain use of force training materials
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A man walks by a Black Lives Matter mural in Los Angeles, California, 24 May 2021, as activists call on the mayor and the City Council to pressure Congress to pass the Floyd Police Reform Bill, APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images Police group abusing copyright law to withhold documents, violate Public Records Act.
This statement was originally published on eff.org on 21 May 2021.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to obtain materials showing how police are trained in the use of force, after the organization cited third-party copyright interests to illegally withhold them from the public.
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Tim Cushing
Following the passage of a law that finally made lots of documentation related to police misconduct publicly accessible in California, the requests for information began pouring in. Some law enforcement agencies complied. Others sued. The state Attorney General showed the public how much they mattered by siding with the secretive agencies.
The entity behind the standards for law enforcement training in the state Police Officers Standards and Training (POST) was supposed to post its training materials publicly in response to the new law. But it found a convenient out: copyright law. It claimed the company that produced its training materials on everything from ALPR readers to deployment of facial recognition tech refused to allow its copyrighted material to be posted publicly.
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George Floyd’s murder nearly a year ago is changing how California’s community colleges and state universities train and educate police officers with urgent emphasis on treating people humanely and using deadly force only as a last resort.
“Law enforcement recognizes that we can do better,” Timothy Vu, a former police chief who runs the Criminal Justice Training Center at Golden West Community College in Orange County said following the conviction last month of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in Floyd’s death.
Courtesy of Golden West College.
Timothy Vu, the former police chief of the City of Alhambra, is the Associate Dean and Director of the Criminal Justice Training Center at Golden West Community College in Orange County.