FOIA: CPD IUCR & Training Plan
In this Freedom of Information Act request is seeking to obtain the Illinois Uniform Crime Report codes, (IUCR) and obtain a copy of a report that detailed a plan for providing each officer 40 hours of in-service training each year. CJP has been forced in to filing this request which we fully plan on following […]
President Catanzara COPA FOIA
John Catanzara, President of the Fraternal Order of Police and Chicago Police officer, has an incredibly checkered history within the the Chicago Police Department (CPD). Catanzara has racked up nearly 50 unique complaints against him over his many years with the CPD. While that makes him very unique by itself he is even more unique […]
FOIA: Calls for Service 2020 Data
This request for what is traditionally called calls for service data covers the year 2020. This data is generated every time someone calls 911 seeking police services. The Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) receives these calls and generates the data. We have been engaged with the Office of Emergency Management & Communications (OEMC) […]
CPD FOIA Suit Updates
This entire lawsuit and how the CPD has responded throughout is a monument to just how against the organization is to real transparency. Also, it is important to note that the behavior of the CPD has not been affected by who was in the Mayor’s office or sitting in the Superintendent’s office. Due to […]
FOIA: DC Office of Unified Communications
This request submitted to the Office of Unified Communications is part of our first set of requests in the District of Columbia (DC). This request is targeting meta data on calls to 911 within DC seeking police services. As is CJP’s policy we are targeting data for as far back as the Office of […]
FOIA: DC Metropolitan Police Department
This is our first set of requests in to the District of Columbia’s (DC) Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). These requests target big data created and maintained by the MPD through the course of their daily work. It is beyond time that that the operations of local justice systems are opened in a manner that […]
Cook County State’s Attorney Breaks Settlement Agreement and Forces Lawsuit!
Despite commitments to work collaboratively from senior officials within Kim Foxx’s Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office our efforts have instead been stonewalled at every turn. Just like the typical Cook County politician she is not interested in real transparency and true oversight. Our previous lawsuit resulted in a settlement in 2017 in which Foxx’s […]
FOIA: Opening the Finances of the CPD
It is time the finances of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) be open for the public to better learn about how the agency spends money and what that money is spent on. Traditionally the public is only able to access the CPD’s budget in a very basic level through the larger city budget document. […]
CJP Wins Summary Judgment Motion
CJP was victorious in our summary judgment motion in our efforts to get the CPD to admit publicly that that a staffing analysis they say they did supporting Rahm’s decision to hire a thousand officers never existed. Yes, we are fighting a FOIA battle over a document CJP knows never existed. This is just […]
FOIA: Public Safety Committee
CJP submitted this request to the Public Safety Committee of the Chicago City Council in a ridiculous continuation of our efforts to figure out who was on this committee from 2000-2020. For months now CJP is been trying very hard to track what alderman served at any point on the Police and Fire Committee which […]