Hmm. Are they straight up lying here, or am I missing something?
First, “The attached records are no longer required to be retained by law and are not needed for any pending litigation.”
Then, later, "The city of Inglewood said in court declarations that some records requested by the ACLU should be temporarily withheld pending ongoing investigations."
>The general rule is that arrest records are public records. However, each state can determine whether they wish for such records to be readily available to the public. [1]
>Arrest records are generally open to the public unless they concern an active or ongoing investigation.[2]
>Since the arrest record is public, anyone can access the information by going to the jurisdiction’s government website. Also, anyone can obtain the arrest record by going to the county clerk’s office in person.[3]
Your account is from 2018 but you have no comments or submissions until now, all on this topic.
You make several significant, serious claims but offer no evidence aside from a jpg of a file in google drive.
For reference, the Austin city/Travis county public records results are returned as pdfs, not scans in jpg. The clerk of the court does not offer "unofficial copies" as far as I am aware.
Let me guess... judyrecords.com collected these by iterating over some chronological id that didn't properly check if someone has read rights.
edit: would love to check, but[0]
> The State Bar Court Portal will be unavailable from February 25th to February 28th due to maintenance activities. During this time the Case Search and Court Calendar functionality will not be available.
Disgusting idiotic court system. If you're arrested guess what, it's public record. The fact that you can find that online is perfectly legitimate and frankly if you don't want people to know about it, don't do it.
The town of Brookline itself. They contracted with Soofa and would likely have responsive records in the form of contracts at the very least. It's not obvious who owns some/all of the data so you might not get the actual MAC addresses - or as others have mentioned you'd get a lot of "random" hits so it would be more difficult to track returning individuals.
Regardless - these are elected officials and their departs using public money for what some might consider surveillance. What's the issue with a little sunshine on how this all works?
I FOIA'd the same data twice and got rejected both times. Apparently the data was part of an active court case where ex cops were suing to get 4+ year old complaints deleted. It wasn't that surprising of an outcome, but... Damn.
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