A landmark 2018 state law opened up police misconduct records after decades of secrecy. Now, in the final days of the Legislature’s current session, a state lawmaker is trying to once again close the door on transparency.

The Legislature and California residents should be outraged at this maneuver that would undermine law enforcement accountability. We must not return to the days of secrecy about bad cops.

It’s been seven years since the Legislature passed Senate Bill 1421, authored by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, which has enabled news outlets across California to provide in-depth reporting on abusive policing and led to creation of a public database of misconduct maintained by UC Berkeley and Stanford University.

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