California Law Enforcement Agencies

This is a list of California law enforcement agencies that we have gathered and curated for the purpose of finding and tracking policy manuals and military equipment inventories. Each row represents a law enforcement agency.

The reason for compiling this list is to have a base set of URLs and related information for California LEAs that will be incorporated into the Know Systemic Racism Knowledge Graph. Stanford Libraries' KNOW Systemic Racism project began work in collaboration with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to gather this list and details about California law enforcement agencies between 2018-2022. We continued to refine the list and add details into August 2023.

## Methodology
This dataset includes a list of POST (Peace Officer Standards and Training) participating law enforcement agencies (LEAs) in California. This list is based on the [California's Commision on Police Officer Standards and Training](https://post.ca.gov/le-agencies). Some LEAs on that list do not appear on this list because our primary interest is in identifying the policy manuals. For example, some LEAs, particularly community college police departments, are part of a shared resource and use the same policy. We added the website URL for each agency as well as an archived version of that URL at the point in time when we gathered it. We are very grateful to Archive.org for webarchving this and other material on the Web and encourage others to support their work.

These LEAs now all have entries within Wikidata and we have added the Wikidata QID to this list to make this dataset more durable and to make it open to continual development by the community.