Last year the Trump administration shut down a national database of misconduct by federal law enforcement officers. Now it's facing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for refusing to release records about that decision.
A coalition of civil rights and police accountability groups filed a FOIA lawsuit on September 4 after waiting 10 months for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release records about why it pulled the plug on the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), a nonpublic database tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement officers.