KOMO 4 News Sues Seattle Police Over Public Records

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Source: KOMO News

SEATTLE -- On Monday afternoon, KOMO News filed a lawsuit against the Seattle Police Department because we believe the department is breaking state public records law.

For more than a year, our Problem Solver investigators have been fighting for access to the department's database of dashcam videos.

The lawsuit, filed in King County Superior Court, contends the police department has intentionally and illegally stonewalled the Problem Solvers over and over again.

The Seattle Police Department is already under federal investigation following several high-profile incidents of alleged police misconduct. We wanted to see for ourselves whether there are more videos that capture questionable behavior by police, but the department is not cooperating.


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1. It's gonna take civilian review boards with hire/fire power to fix our police.

Which, of course, means it's the one thing they fight above all others - the notion that they are answerable to the public and not to some backroom authorities.