Public Defenseless 414 | How California Built a Database to Track Police Misconduct w/Katey Rusch
Today, Hunter was joined once again by journalist Katey Rausch. Last time Katey was on the show, she discussed her bombshell reporting on the non-disclosure agreements law enforcement was using to hide the misconduct of law enforcement officers. Now, Katey is here to describe how that reporting has turned into a ban on those agreements and a state wide data base to allow people to track law enforcement misconduct.
Guest:
Katey Rusch, Record Requests Manager and Data Journalist, California Reporting Project, UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Resources:
Contact Katey
https://journalism.berkeley.edu/person/katey-rusch/
https://x.com/kateyrusch?lang=en
Read Katey's Work and About the Database
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/police-clean-record-agreements/
https://gijn.org/stories/investigating-police-officer-misconduct/
https://journalism.berkeley.edu/berkeley-and-stanford-police-database/
https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/08/police-misconduct-records-database/
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