Only state cases and only case info but no documents available

Go to https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/HomePage and click "Search as Guest". Search for all civil cases w/ company name as Police Department

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Only lists case numbers w/ officer name but no details at all about case

Go online to website on the first of every month and download hearing calendar: https://civilrights.baltimorecity.gov/civilian-review-board/resources

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Only goes back to 2014. Officers who work undercover won't be listed. There are no unique identifiers listed so difficult to match officers over the years

Data is posted publicly to this website bi-annually. If they are late, you can send a FOIA to the Office of Payroll Administration and they will post it online. https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Citywide-Payroll-Data-Fiscal-Year-/k397-673e

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None to access but it takes significant time to process the data due to the lack of unique identifier

Make Officer's Tax ID or Payroll ID public

Only federal cases that are e-filed will show up but officers can also be sued for federal civil rights violations in state court.

Go to PACER.gov and then the case locator. Search for all 440 and 550 civi rights cases in the Eastern and Southern District of New York. Download any cases tht name the police department or it's officers as defendants. .

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PACER fees are currently being waived so there is no cost to searching but the searches do take significant time.

Creating a tool that automatically searches and downloads civil rights lawsuits from PACER

Only disclosed when prosecutor deems relevant to case at hand.

Attorney submits discovery request. If something turned over, they should send it to admin@capraps.org

only disclosed on eve of trial and only include misconduct prosecutor is aware of

Attorney sends to db admin

Can't share letter outside firm but anything listed in the letter found publicly can be

only disclosed on eve of trial and only include misconduct prosecutor is aware of

Attorney sends to db admin

Can't share letter outside firm but anything listed in the letter found publicly can be

only disclosed on eve of trial and only include misconduct prosecutor is aware of

Attorney sends to db admin

Can't share letter outside firm but anything listed in the letter found publicly can be

only disclosed on eve of trial and only include misconduct prosecutor is aware of

Attorney sends to db admin

Can't share letter outside firm but anything listed in the letter found publicly can be

Only appellate cases that are flagged as interesting by appellate attorneys

Review the appellate summaries that get sent out once a day and check for any relative decisions

Redact case number and defendant name before sharing outside organization

Only a subset of vacated convictions handled by this unit but not all of them

Wrongful Conviction unit sends to Db admin

Can share publicly potentially depending what's on the record

There is no list of vacated convictions so we only know about those that come through our office

Not all files are disclosed even with a subpoena. Limited disclosures after in-camera review. Data may be redacted to exclude other officer's names

Attorney must submit a Gissendanner motion resulting in Judge granting subpoena.

Can't share with anybody outside firm

Civil Rights Law 50-A and appellate caselaw determined that these are consider personnel records and are otherwise confidential except when a subpoena is granted by a judge.

Repeal Civil Rights Law 50-A. Include in repeal package legislation that forces bureau to publish data online electronically.

Not all files are disclosed even with a subpoena. Limited disclosures after in-camera review. Data may be redacted to exclude other officer's names

Attorney must submit a Gissendanner motion resulting in Judge granting subpoena.

Can't share with anybody outside firm

Civil Rights Law 50-A and appellate caselaw determined that these are consider personnel records and are otherwise confidential except when a subpoena is granted by a judge.

Repeal Civil Rights Law 50-A. Include in repeal package legislation that forces bureau to publish data online electronically.

No verification on the allegations so cannot do anything with them unless complainant willing to come forward

OpenPolice sends us a monthly download

Can share complaint but keep complainant info for admin only

Just a list of the case disposition/settlement amount but not any documents

FOIA Robot will send a FOIA request to NYC law department monthly for all cases settled that month. Once data is obtained, have to match with cases in database

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Have to submit monthly FOIA requests.

If data was posted to NYC Open Data Portal

Hearings are only for cases where allegations were substantiated and officer chooses to go to administrative trial rather than accepting a plea. When attending these hearings, we can only write a summary about what was heard but do not get any tangible documentation of it

Review trial calendar posted on the first of each month. Sit it on each trial and take notes on the case

While the trials are public, our notes summaries should not be shared as factual and should only be used to determine if you should seek a subpoena for the full case file.

Trial calendar is often wrong or trial dates change last minute. Takes a team of interns to be able to go and sit in on each hearing

Repealing 50-A would allow us to FOIA the CCRB investigations rather than sitting in on hearings. But a smaller win would be having the disciplinary hearings livestreamed or at least a trial calendar updated accurately and timely

Each data set includes past 5 years and is released bi-annually. It only includes four categories of police misconduct and both the department and individual officers need to be named in the case. This may exclude lawsuits that allege things like employment discrimination. Data set also only includes generic case information but not any documents, which need to be downloaded on PACER/State court sites

Go to website on January and July 1st and download new spreadsheet: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/law/public-resources/nyc-administrative-code-7-114.page

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Helpful to know which cases exist but still have to search and download the documents elsewhere

If documents were included with case list or we had a scraper set up to check for them

Does not provide a breakdown of the hierarchy in the command structure

Send a FOIA to New York City Police Department

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Declined prosecutions can be for reasons other than officer misconduct. This data is only helpful in the aggregate to look for patterns/themes.

Send a FOIA request to the District Attorney

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Declined prosecutions can be for reasons other than officer misconduct. This data is only helpful in the aggregate to look for patterns/themes.

Send a FOIA request to the District Attorney

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Declined prosecutions can be for reasons other than officer misconduct. This data is only helpful in the aggregate to look for patterns/themes.

Send a FOIA request to the District Attorney

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Declined prosecutions can be for reasons other than officer misconduct. This data is only helpful in the aggregate to look for patterns/themes.

Send a FOIA request to the District Attorney

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Declined prosecutions can be for reasons other than officer misconduct. This data is only helpful in the aggregate to look for patterns/themes.

Send a FOIA request to the District Attorney

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Can only view the arresting officer's tax id, which is not always officer listed in the complaint

Not available under FOIA

Bring an Article 78

Attorney must document and send to db admins

Client waiver needed to share outside defense team

Attorney on case should send in a copy of the opinion or transcript to the database admin

Need client waiver to share outside of defense team

Attorneys forget to save and send in

Have some sort of routine review or reminder for attorneys to send in these types of docs

Can do ad hoc searches for officer's names in Westlaw and published decisions of interest might come up

Redact case number and defendant name before sharing outside organization

inaccessible

Not available under FOIA

Bring an Article 78

Send a FOIA request to Office of Payroll Administration

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Go to website and search for Port Authority in the decisions

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Don't share publicly but can use when relevant in case

Send a FOIA to https://corpinfo.panynj.gov/pages/public-records-access-form/

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Send a FOIA to https://corpinfo.panynj.gov/pages/public-records-access-form/

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Inaccessible

Not available through FOIA

Active litigation is ongoing to determine if these are subject to FOIA