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Media News, Midwest

Police misconduct records secret, difficult to access

  • By Kallie Cox and William Freivogel
  • June 8, 2021

Police misconduct records are either secret or difficult to access in a majority of states – 35 of them plus.

Media News, Midwest

New Illinois police reform bill makes state police misconduct database secret

  • By Kallie Cox
  • May 18, 2021

This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Illinois’ historic criminal justice reform law, hailed as.

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