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Add lawsuits BPD officers have been involved in

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Description

There are few BPD officers in the city, and adding the court documents for all lawsuits BPD officers have been involved in is a nicely scoped research task that would be really useful for the Berkeley community.

The volunteer here would need to investigate:

- [ ] Where records of these lawsuits are stored and what is required (if anything) to access them
- [ ] For each officer in Berkeley (see https://openoversight.com/department/2) find all lawsuits they are associated with
- [ ] As a staging area, we can put these links to documents in this issue (or in a Google Doc) for each officer along with a short summary of the lawsuit (optional but it would be great, we can also workshop with you if you like)
- [ ] Ask @redshiftzero to get made a temporary area coordinator on OpenOversight
- [ ] Upload the lawsuits on each profile

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the Berkeley officer list at https://openoversight.com/department/2 and determine where the relevant lawsuit records are stored and how they can be accessed. Stage links and optional summaries for each officer, request temporary area coordinator access from @redshiftzero, and upload the lawsuit documents to the associated profiles.

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Assessment

Domain
content, database
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
28/100

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