California law requires every law enforcement agency — from large city departments to campus police — to document any use of crowd-control weapons such as chemical agents or less-lethal projectiles during protest response.
That same law, Assembly Bill 48 passed in 2022, requires agencies to post their crowd-control reports online, and the California Department of Justice is required to gather and post those reports in a central location.
Despite this requirement, the DOJ’s website lists reports from just 32 of the 624 law enforcement agencies in the state. Among the agencies not listed on the DOJ’s website are nine of the 10 University of California campus police forces…