https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/09/tucsons-two-tiered-shaming/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:45:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/09/tucsons-two-tiered-shaming/comment-page-1/#comment-327658 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:45:34 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=55259#comment-327658 […] to shield the identities of officers who use force.” [Watchdog] And with respect to our post of the other day, a commenter writes that the city of Tucson’s two-tiered informational release — […]

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/09/tucsons-two-tiered-shaming/comment-page-1/#comment-327655 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:41:02 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=55259#comment-327655 Back when this first blew up, I tried to find the names because I wanted to see who was on it. I couldn’t find the list anywhere. Eventually I found out that the names weren’t “released”, the Arizona Daily Star requested the names from police records (under a public records transparency law.) The police redacted the officer names because under the law they were under active investigation, which is a legal exception carved out due to unions. I was never able to get the names, the paper wouldn’t release them to me, and the cost for getting the records from the police was exorbitant (around 25 cents a page IIRC, and there was about 300 pages.)

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