How To Report With The Police Records Access Project Database

In August, the California Reporting Project, UC Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program, Stanford’s Big Local News and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science released a searchable database of California police use-of-force and misconduct records. The database contains over 1.5 million pages of these records, made available to the public under SB1421 and other laws passed in recent years.

Join us, California Reporting Project Director of Research Lisa Pickoff-White and California Reporting Project Data Journalist Emily Zentner at KQED Headquarters on Oct. 8 for a special training where Lisa and Emily will walk you through how to use this database in your reporting and how the team used AI tools to build it.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., followed by the one-hour workshop at 6 p.m. in the Dolby Community Room.