{"id":10088,"date":"2023-02-26T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10088"},"modified":"2023-02-26T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T01:32:00","slug":"louisiana-sheriffs-offices-have-been-destroying-public-records-without-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10088","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Sheriffs&#8217; Offices Have Been Destroying Public Records Without Permission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Almost half of Louisiana&#8217;s sheriffs&#8217; offices are breaking state public records law, according to a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/nearly-half-of-louisiana-sheriffs-are-violating-public-records-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investigation<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<em>ProPublica&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Verite<\/em>, a New Orleans\u2013based nonprofit newsroom. Lacking formal document retention policies, as required by state law, Louisiana sheriff&#8217;s offices have been accused of destroying public records, including documents showing evidence of police misconduct.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;When sheriffs&#8217; offices fail to create a public document retention policy\u2014and follow it\u2014the consequences can be devastating. &#8220;Comprehensive and accurate records are critical if patterns and causes of harm are going to be identified and corrected, for example when looking at staff deployment or employee discipline,&#8221; Elizabeth Cumming, an attorney representing inmates held at the Orleans Justice Center,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/nearly-half-of-louisiana-sheriffs-are-violating-public-records-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a><em>ProPublica<\/em>. &#8220;Without a robust practice of record generation, maintenance, review and assessment, our clients will continue to experience preventable violations of their rights.&#8221;&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"A0puvSQhSj\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/01\/30\/louisiana-sheriffs-offices-have-been-destroying-public-records-without-permission\/\">Louisiana Sheriffs&#8217; Offices Have Been Destroying Public Records Without Permission<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Louisiana Sheriffs&#039; Offices Have Been Destroying Public Records Without Permission&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/01\/30\/louisiana-sheriffs-offices-have-been-destroying-public-records-without-permission\/embed\/#?secret=hvjfHAd46t#?secret=A0puvSQhSj\" data-secret=\"A0puvSQhSj\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Almost half of Louisiana&#8217;s sheriffs&#8217; offices are breaking state public records law, according to a new investigation from ProPublica and Verite, a New Orleans\u2013based nonprofit newsroom. Lacking formal document retention policies, as required by state law, Louisiana sheriff&#8217;s offices have been accused of destroying public records, including documents showing evidence of police misconduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When sheriffs&#8217; offices fail to create a public document retention policy\u2014and follow it\u2014the consequences can be devastating. &#8220;Comprehensive and accurate records are critical if patterns and causes of harm are going to be identified and corrected, for example when looking at staff deployment or employee discipline,&#8221; Elizabeth Cumming, an attorney representing inmates held at the Orleans Justice Center, told ProPublica. &#8220;Without a robust practice of record generation, maintenance, review and assessment, our clients will continue to experience preventable violations of their rights.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[280,1834,285],"class_list":["post-10088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-criminal-justice","tag-louisiana","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10089,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088\/revisions\/10089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}