Open Vallejo (https://openvallejo.org/tag/sb-1421/)
All of the victims were Black. All of them were unarmed. Their names are Andrew Lamar Washington, Otis Edward McPeters, Charles Khristopher Gordon, and Michael Todd White.
“Such an exemption would violate the intent of SB 1421 and SB 16,” Sen. Nancy Skinner, the author of the two police transparency bills, told Open Vallejo.
The Vallejo city attorney’s office has long resisted public scrutiny of the police department’s frequent shootings. With a new law poised to force the release of shooting records, a lawyer and a detective made a decision no court can reverse.