BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - A Birmingham man is accused of accessing a state criminal database without authority or exceeding authorization on more than one occasion. Leo Taylor, Jr. is charged with two ...

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The Los Angeles Times today published the Police Records Access Project, a new searchable database featuring once-secret police records. Built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University, 1.5 million pages ...

A searchable database of public records concerning use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers — some 1.5 million pages from nearly 700 law enforcement agencies — is now ...