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Apr 29 2021 5:50 pm
  • Long Beach Police Department

Police said their jail was in ‘shambles.’ The man hired to fix it ended up quietly fired

Jeremiah Dobruck

Accusations of overtime fraud triggered an expansive investigation that the city battled in court to keep hidden.

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Dec 24 2020 8:23 am
  • cpcc

In major shift, city to allow oversight commission to see police officer statements

Jason Ruiz

After decades of not providing officer statements to CPCC commissioners those statements will now be provided starting Jan. 1.

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Jan 29 2020 5:42 pm
  • SB 1421

Fired LBPD officer dodged subpoenas, tried to sabotage DUI case, officials say

Jeremiah Dobruck

One prosecutor called Torres “her worst witness ever, civilian or police officer,” according to newly released documents from the LBPD.

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Dec 2 2019 1:25 pm
  • SB 1421

Statewide reporting project on police accountability wins free speech award

Staff Reports

A statewide collaboration among newsrooms including the Long Beach Post has won an award for reporting on police misconduct and use of force.

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Nov 14 2019 11:25 am
  • SB 1421

LBPD releases new details on recent police shootings under new transparency law

Kelly Puente

The Long Beach Police Department has hired more staff to handle a flood of public records requests in the wake of a new police transparency law.

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Sep 16 2019 2:17 pm
  • Long Beach Police Department

Activists condemn LBPD officers getting preview of misconduct, use-of-force records

Jeremiah Dobruck

Long Beach’s negotiating team and the police union have already agreed to give officers early access to records, but the City Council holds the final stamp of approval.

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Sep 10 2019 12:41 pm
  • SB 1421

LBPD officers could be warned when someone wants public records about them

Jeremiah Dobruck

Officers would get to see the records five days before they’re released to the general public, opening the door for them to lobby the city about redactions, experts said.

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Aug 14 2019 4:25 pm
  • Long Beach Police Department

Long Beach police officer attributed accidental shooting to ‘cold weather gloves’

Kelly Puente

New documents from the Long Beach Police Department provide a rare glimpse into an officer-involved shooting investigation.

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Jul 12 2019 9:20 am
  • police shooting

Long Beach rarely finds officers broke department rules in police shootings

Jeremiah Dobruck

The first major document released under a new transparency law shows Long Beach police decided officers almost always acted within policy when they shot people over the past five years.

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Jun 6 2019 10:33 am
  • officer-involved shooting

Signal Hill police fired officer who downplayed role in 2014 shooting, documents show

Valerie Osier

This revelation has come to light only now because of SB 1421, a California law that went into effect Jan. 1 rolling back some of California’s strict privacy rules for police officers’ personnel files.

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