The city of Inglewood, Calif., has cleared plans to destroy more than 100 records of police use of force as determined at a council meeting earlier this month. This comes weeks before a new state law goes into effect to give the public access to such records, the Los Angeles Times reported.
According to the Dec. 22 article, the purge has bothered civil liberties advocates who backed Senate Bill 142. Come Jan. 1, internal probes into police shootings and other significant uses of force, verified cases of sexual assault and lying while on duty will be available for the public to review.