SOURCE DIRECTORY
California accountability sources
V3 also includes a registry of official state and county sources in data/official_sources.json so additional records can be imported without mixing policy pages with person-level findings.
CALIFORNIA • PUBLIC RECORDS • SOURCE-BACKED
Search the record.
See the source.
A public-record research tool for officer certification actions, Brady/Giglio disclosures, court findings, and qualifying misconduct records. Results describe the record — not the person.
UNIFIED SEARCH
Search officer records
V5 — 158 public-record entries indexed
158 California public-record entries are indexed in this build, including POST certification-action records and Contra Costa SB 1421 navigation records.
AUTHORITATIVE STARTING POINT
Search California POST directly
OFFICIAL STATE SOURCE
California POST Certification Actions Archive
POST's archive can be searched by partial officer name, agency, action type, or date range. It includes current and archived certification actions.
Open POST archive ↗LIVE RECORDS
California POST Certification Actions
Current certification actions include revocations, voluntary surrenders, ineligibility determinations, temporary suspensions, suspensions, and conditional certifications.
Open current actions ↗The Brady List should never imply that every POST action is a Brady/Giglio determination. Those are separate record types.
DON'T KNOW THE NAME?
Generate a public-record request.
Enter the details you have from a citation, arrest, stop, or other enforcement encounter. The tool creates a neutral California Public Records Act request for records sufficient to identify the involved officer or enforcement employee.
For parking tickets, the issuing person may be a civilian parking-control employee rather than a sworn peace officer.
PUBLICATION STANDARDS
Rules for putting a name on the site
Name + agency, and preferably badge/POST identifier or another corroborating identifier.
Government, court, prosecutor, POST, or agency document. No social-media-only entries.
Temporary suspension is not called revocation. Allegation is not called sustained misconduct.
Store source URL, document title, date, and last-verified date.
Provide a documentary correction process for officers, agencies, attorneys, and the public.
No result means only that the database currently contains no matching sourced record.