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DPA says SB1421 workloads and public reporting have surged; committee seeks staffing and process updates
Summary
The Department of Police Accountability told supervisors it has modernized case management and public reporting but faces a large SB1421 public‑records workload; DPA reported 5,000 potentially disclosable cases identified and urged more staff and automated processes to meet requests.
The Department of Police Accountability (DPA) described a year‑end status report to the committee, detailing new public reporting, a migration to a Salesforce‑based case management system, and an expanded outreach and auditing role. Director Henderson and DPA staff said transparency and reporting have improved but that compliance with SB1421 — which made many previously confidential records public — has produced a heavy manual review and redaction workload.
DPA staff attorney Diana Rosenstein said the agency has retained records back to its 1982 inception and identified…
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