ShotSpotter Open Records Requests
CJP’s ShotSpotter Transparency & Research Campaign is a nationwide effort to hold police departments and technology vendors accountable for the use of ShotSpotter’s gunshot‑detection surveillance system. By filing public‑records requests with more than 100 police agencies across the country, this campaign seeks to uncover the truth about how ShotSpotter is deployed, what it actually accomplishes, […]
CPD Litigation Data FOIA
The City of Chicago has paid out nearly $300 million in 2025 alone for civil judgments & settlements related to litigation involving the Chicago Police Department. A 2022 report by the City’s Inspector General detailed massive gaps in the data collected by the City’s Law Department, Office of Risk Management, and the CPD itself. On […]
Do Not Call List FOIA Requests
Today, the Chicago Justice Project filed several requests under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO) seeking records related to the Do Not Call List. This is a list of officers whom the SAO has deemed to have credibility issues to such a degree that the office will […]
South Bend Police Department (SBPD) Open Records Requests
On Friday, August 1, CJP expanded our transparency work to South Bend, Indiana—specifically focusing on the South Bend Police Department (SBPD). As part of our ongoing commitment to government accountability, we submitted a series of open records requests under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act to help shine a light on the inner workings […]
Request to Chicago OIG: Audit CPD FOIA Practices
On Tuesday, CJP filed a request with the Office of the Inspector General for the City of Chicago, requesting that their office audit the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to determine if the CPD’s response to requests under Illinois’ Freedom of Information Act complies with the law. We also requested that the OIG pay special attention […]
Update on PGPD Lawsuit
Chicago Justice sued Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD) on March 12, 2024, to enforce Maryland Public Information Act document requests, pending since 2021. The lawsuit seeks documents and records regarding the Prince George’s Police Department’s participation in and collection, storage, and dissemination of gang affiliation data for the Washington/Baltimore High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program. […]
Sexual Violence on Campus FOIAs
CJP Nation is researching how Chicago universities respond to sexual violence on campus. As part of their research they are reviewing the mandated reports the universities have to file both to the federal and state governments. As part of this work the group learned that each university in Illinois has to file a report with […]
FOIA: CPD Do Not Call Officers
On July 17th the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office released their Do Not Call List made up of many CPD officers who for various reasons the office will not longer call as witnesses. While the existence of the list is an important step forward in accountability for CPD officers the list itself if very limited […]
FOIA: Gang Affiliation Data from DC Metropolitan Police Department
This request submitted to the Metropolitan Police Department on Sept 22, 2021 is part of CJP’s much larger effort to track gang affiliation data collection and distribution in the District of Columbia, throughout the state of Maryland, and on the federal level. It is vitally important to shed light on the justice system’s practices around […]
Gang Affiliation Data Project
CJP has undertaken a broad campaign of using open records laws to pry open data and records pertaining to the collection and distribution of gang affiliation data in D.C., throughout the state of Maryland, and on the federal level. Gang databases are over-inclusive, inaccurate, and disparate in impact. Entry into these gang databases does not […]