California SB 978 Police Policies Dataset, April 2021

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Abstract

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in partnership with Stanford Libraries' Systemic Racism Tracker (SRT) project is releasing a dataset with links to 458 policy manuals from California law enforcement agencies, including most police departments and sheriff offices and some district attorney offices, school district police departments, and university public safety departments.

This dataset represents our first attempt to aggregate these policy documents following the passage of S.B. 978, a state law that requires local law enforcement agencies to publish this information online. We used the California Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training’s list of California law enforcement agencies to prioritize municipal police, sheriff’s offices, university and school district police, and district attorneys in our data collection. Future research will cover other forms of local law enforcement.

The dataset is a comma delimited .csv file. It contains the law enforcement agency name, agency type, city, county, and URLs for the websites that contain the policy manuals.

Description

Type of resource software, multimedia
Date created April 28, 2021

Creators/Contributors

Author Kubeny, Dylan
Author Maass, Dave
Publisher Electronic Frontier Foundation

Subjects

Subject California
Subject Law Enforcement Agency
Subject SB978
Subject Policy Manual
Subject Training Manual
Subject Transparency
Subject Senator Steven Bradford
Subject Electronic Frontier Foundation
Subject EFF
Genre Dataset

Bibliographic information

Related Publication Maass, Dave. (2021). Here Are 458 California Law Enforcement Agencies' Policy Documents All in One Place. Electronic Frontier Foundation. Available at https://www.eff.org/sb978-Apr2021
Related item
Title
Web Archive of California Law Enforcement Agencies SB978 Websites
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/yf700bp8218

Access conditions

Use and reproduction
User agrees that, where applicable, content will not be used to identify or to otherwise infringe the privacy or confidentiality rights of individuals. Content distributed via the Stanford Digital Repository may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor.
License
This work is licensed under an Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication & License 1.0.

Preferred citation

Kubeny, Dylan and Maass, Dave. (2021). California SB 978 Police Policies Dataset, April 2021. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/yf700bp8218

Collection

Stanford Library Systemic Racism Tracker Database, Policing Collection

Contact information

aos@eff.org

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