Partnership

For Newsrooms and Investigative Reporters

Use PoliceConduct.org as a working public-record resource when a story needs faster source organization, better context, and a clearer view of what the current record actually shows.

What we can do now
Support record review and reporting context
We can help journalists review site entries, linked public materials, and related records around a defined reporting question.

How We Can Help

We can help a newsroom assemble a scoped records brief around a department, officer, incident, or local accountability issue by organizing relevant site entries and linked public sources into a single working summary.

Good fit
  • Investigative or public-interest reporting teams.
  • Editors who need a scoped records brief, not a product pitch.
  • Stories where context across multiple records matters.

What we can help with now

The value is practical: gather what is already public, clarify how it connects, and reduce the time it takes to understand the record.

Record review

Source gathering

  • Pull together relevant site entries and linked public materials.
  • Flag obvious gaps that still require independent reporting.

Context

Pattern review

  • Show related reports, personnel, agencies, and civil cases in one place.
  • Help distinguish one incident from a broader pattern when the record supports it.

Working output

Scoped brief

  • Prepare a short summary of what the current record appears to show.
  • Keep the brief narrow enough to be useful in an active reporting cycle.

What partnership looks like

  • Tell us the reporting question, geography, and deadline.
  • We respond with a scoped plan for what records or site data we can help organize.
  • We do not replace reporting, legal review, or editorial judgment.
Suggested next step

If you are working a story and want to know whether we can help assemble a records brief, send the newsroom, topic, and deadline.

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