Too many bad cops? Contra Costa Sheriff says “hundreds of files” need review, balks at releasing disciplinary records

State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, who sponsored S.B. 1421, ripped Livingston.

“Law enforcement agencies up and down the state have been releasing records under SB 1421, just as the law requires. The First District Court of Appeals has also now ruled that records, regardless of when they were created, should be released,” she said in a statement. So Livingston’s “claim that responding to a reasonable records request is too burdensome is simply a defiance of state law.”

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