Follow-Up: Review of the Chicago Police Department’s Management and Production of Records
Summary
The Public Safety section of the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General has completed a follow-up to its June 2020 review of the Chicago Police Department’s management and production of records.
Executive Summary
The purpose of OIG’s 2020 review was to determine how CPD managed and produced records responsive to criminal and civil litigation and to identify risk areas within those processes. OIG found that CPD could not ensure that it was producing all relevant records in its possession as required by constitutional and legal mandates.
Specifically, CPD personnel responsible for relevant duties had no standardized or effective means to identify the totality of records responsive to any specific incident, individual, request, prosecution, or lawsuit. Various stakeholders—including prosecutors, defense attorneys, private attorneys, and judges—told OIG that CPD’s practices around record production were ineffective and lacked clarity.
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