ACLU requests UCD Police Department documents
In a letter to UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi this week, the ACLU of Northern California requested a number of internal campus Police Department documents under the California Public Records Act.
Requested information includes copies of any UC Davis Police Department policies, general orders and training materials related to the use of pepper spray and the use of force in general, as well as records showing how the policies were developed and by whom.
“We understand from news reports that the officers involved had received training in the departmental policies for using pepper spray,” ACLU staff attorney Michael Risher wrote in the letter. “(W)e do not understand how an officer who had received such training could possibly believe that these actions were appropriate.”
Risher adds that for almost a decade now, following a federal appeals court decision in 2002, “it has been clear