“While folks can go to the [Office for Civil Rights] to get information about police referrals in their community, it is unlikely that local folks would even know that that data collection exists,” she said, adding that community members may not “necessarily have a lot of faith or trust that this federal data source 3,000 miles away from their home is an accurate depiction of what’s going on in their community.”
In an interview with Crosscut’s Liz Brazile, DQC Executive Vice President Paige Kowalski discusses federal reporting requirements and data for school suspensions and expulsions as well as discipline involving law enforcement.
