414 | How California Built a Database to Track Police Misconduct w/Katey Rusch

Nov 12

Hunter is joined once again by journalist Katey Rausch. Last time Katey was on the show, she discussed her bombshell reporting on the non-disclosure agreements law enforcement was using to hide the misconduct of law enforcement officers. Now, Katey is here to describe how that reporting has turned into a ban on those agreements and a state wide data base to allow people to track law enforcement misconduct.

Guest:

Katey Rusch, Record Requests Manager and Data Journalist, California Reporting Project, UC Berkeley School of Journalism

Resources:

Contact Katey

https://journalism.berkeley.edu/person/katey-rusch/

https://x.com/kateyrusch?lang=en

Read Katey’s Work and About the Database

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/police-clean-record-agreements/

https://gijn.org/stories/investigating-police-officer-misconduct/

https://journalism.berkeley.edu/berkeley-and-stanford-police-database/

https://clean.calmatters.org/

https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/08/police-misconduct-records-database/