But we don’t have to imagine, we can make CPRA requests! Which is what I did, asking LAPD for a year’s worth of postings so as to learn what the heck these people were up to in their little secret world. The LAPD and private security already get up to enough of this in open emails, as does the freaking BID Patrol. They mostly just announce that new information is available on RPPICS, and since they won’t give up the goods, there’s no way to tell what that is.īut this kind of public/private collaboration sharing between police and security is famous for being misused for political surveillance and other illegal and antihuman activities. You can see the emails here on Archive.Org, but they’re not that interesting. I learned about this from some emails I got from the Downtown Center BID in response to a CPRA request. The other issue has to do with some Orwellian slab of web app crap known as the Regional Public Private Infrastructure Collaboration System. They refused, and that is my first cause of action. As it’s essential to find out not only how many arrests the BID Patrol makes 2 but who they’re actually arresting, I requested that the LAPD give me all of these forms from Hollywood from 2018. In the first place, remember back in 2016 when Kerry Morrison and her merry gang of curb-stomping thugs at Andrews International Security altered their contract to be able to withhold public records from me? That left me with no way to tell exactly who said curb-stomping thuggie boys arrested, information they naturally wanted to obscure from me because they tend to arrest the wrong people and rather than mend their ways they prefer to cover up their misdeeds.īut last year I discovered that every time the BID Patrol arrests someone they fill out a form for the LAPD. You can read the complaint here, written by the incomparable Abenicio Cisneros, and/or see transcribed selections below the break. Sadly, the CPRA provides no recourse at all for arbitrary unjustified denials beyond the filing of a lawsuit, 1 which is what the path I was forced to follow by the LAPD’s extraordinary and unsupportable intransigence. They will still arbitrarily deny requests and then cut off the conversation, and they did this to me twice in 2018. This welcome improvement in LAPD responsiveness does not mean that all is well in Cop-CPRAlandia. However, since the City of LA started using the NextRequest CPRA platform the LAPD has gotten quite a bit more responsive, although they can still take a maddeningly long time to respond and produce records.
These suits were based on the LAPD’s longstanding habit of completely ignoring CPRA requests, often for years at a time. Stop LAPD Spying has had to sue them twice, once in 2015 and again in 2018. So much so that in 2017 the ACLU sued them for systemic violations of the law, which is in addition to any number of small-scale suits based on individual violations, like e.g. The LAPD has been notoriously bad at complying with the California Public Records Act.