A City Council vote on Charles Green’s lawsuit settlement was postponed.
Tag: Citizens Police Data Project
Invisible Institute launches expanded police misconduct database
Police union spokesman says “motives” behind database are “perfectly transparent.”
Chicago Data Collaborative launches criminal justice data portal
The cooperative connects the dots between data sets about the same person or case buried among various city and county agencies.
New ‘Yelp for cops’ app takes epidemiological approach to police misconduct
Though it’s a private middleman for complaints, police transparency advocates welcome Excuse Me Officer.
Jamie Kalven honored for journalistic valor
Jamie Kalven wins a Ridenhour Courage Prize.
Invisible Institute wins $400,000 Knight grant
The Invisible Institute was demanding the release of any police video of 2014’s fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald even before it was certain a video existed.
In freedom of information triumph, Chicago police misconduct complaint records now online
But the victory is limited by an injunction that insulates the vast majority of police shooting investigations from public scrutiny.