Police accountability advocacy group launches online database of officer firings
Ananda Tomas, founder and executive director of ACT 4 SA, leads chants with family members of the late AJ Hernandez — a 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot in May 2022 by a San Antonio police officer — during a rally for him in July 2022 outside Public Safety Headquarters. Act4SA has launched an online database of San Antonio Police Department officer firings and suspensions.
According to the website, data was assembled from public records requested from the city of San Antonio, and from the San Antonio Police Department’s data and transparency page.San Antonio police officer suspended for shoving man, pointing Taser at people following orders The database enables users to search by a police officer’s name, incident type or disciplinary outcome, and it includes short summaries of every offense that suspended officers have committed. The project was funded by the Catalyst Grant offered by the Urban Institute and Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative.
Ananda Tomas, executive director of ACT 4 SA, said in a statement that there are plans to update the database regularly and to include suspension data from the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, Bexar County Constables, and other police and sheriff departments across the state.
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