{"id":35941,"date":"2018-12-28T13:14:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35941"},"modified":"2018-12-29T09:11:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T14:11:25","slug":"techdirt-com-california-town-oks-destruction-of-police-shooting-records-days-before-they-could-be-obtained-by-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35941","title":{"rendered":"Techdirt.com: California Town OKs Destruction Of Police Shooting Records Days Before They Could Be Obtained By The Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Techdirt.com: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20181226\/06570041288\/california-town-oks-destruction-police-shooting-records-days-before-they-could-be-obtained-public.shtml\">California Town OKs Destruction Of Police Shooting Records Days Before They Could Be Obtained By The Public<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>California has long protected police officers from accountability. Most police misconduct records are impossible to obtain via public records requests. The restrictions covering these personnel files even prevent defense attorneys and prosecutors from accessing them, allowing cops with lousy track records for telling the truth to present testimony as if they&#8217;ve never committed a misdeed or told a lie. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techdirt.com: California Town OKs Destruction Of Police Shooting Records Days Before They Could Be Obtained By The Public by Tim Cushing: California has long protected police officers from accountability. Most police misconduct records are impossible to obtain via public records &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35941\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35955,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941\/revisions\/35955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}