LOS ANGELES – The Inglewood Police Department “systematically” violated state public records laws by disregarding requests for documents related to police misconduct, including fatal shootings, and must now post the information on its website, a judge has ruled.
In 2021, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California sued the department, alleging that it had not produced a single document in response to public records requests made nearly three years before.
The records the ACLU requested in 2019 included those related to fatal shootings by police officers, dishonesty by officers and sexual assaults involving officers…