Sacramento, California – California will stop funding a statewide police transparency database created to make misconduct and serious use-of-force records searchable by the public, according to The Center Square.
The Police Records Access Project launched in 2025 with roughly 1.5 million pages of internal law enforcement records from hundreds of agencies. UC Berkeley received a $6.87 million state appropriation in 2023 to help build the system, but state officials said those funds expire at the end of June.
California Department of Finance official Erika Li said the state understood that ongoing costs, estimated at about $1.5 million per year, would be covered without additional state funding.
The Center Square reported that the database has not been updated frequently, with no uploaded cases from 2025 or 2026. Project officials said more funding would allow them to gather, process, and release more records.
Police-transparency advocates said the project’s goal remains important but questioned whether the state should require agencies to publish records directly instead of relying on a university-run database. Assemblyman Carl DeMaio called the idea valuable but criticized its implementation.
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