Sam Stecklow

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journalist & FOIA fellow @invisible.institute indie local news cheerleader if you were really smart, you’d know what to do orlando he/him

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Session card for an IRE AccessFest panel on "Utilizing new police misconduct and employment databases"
According to a review by the Invisible Institute, one of the members of the Coalition, “all but three” of the officers that were designated as undercover “had information online linking their given name with being a police officer in Minnesota before the release” of the POST Board data. Sam Stecklow, Undercover Minnesota cops suing oversight board have public LinkedIns, discipline and shootings, Sahan Journal (Sept. 24, 2025), https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/undercover-minnesota-police-officers-post-board-mppo-lawsuit.
A color-coded map showing various levels of access to police employment history data across the U.S.
A color-coded map showing access to police employment history data across the U.S., and announcing that new data is available from several states on the National Police Index: national.cpdp.co.
Gladu’s history of offenses were unaccounted for in other ways: Until he was criminally charged, he was never listed on the police accountability database run by the state Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission, even though that database is supposed to report substantiated cases of police misconduct, including those that are not criminal.
SSA opponents have also scrutinized the Chamber’s motives for proposing the SSA. In the second hearing, Hoy claimed that the Chamber has an ulterior motive, basing his claim off a line in the Chamber’s initial SSA application: “SSA revenue will also help [the Chamber] replace the lost parking revenue.” The Chinatown Parking Corporation, a nonprofit organized by many Chamber board members, runs the parking lot across from the Chinatown library. Hoy believes that some Chamber board members want to develop that parking lot for private commercial use and would use SSA revenue to make up for the parking revenue lost when developing the lot.
An excerpt from an Illinois State Police investigation relaying an eyewitness account of now Champaign Police Chief Timothy Tyler pulling his ex-girlfriend by her utility belt during an argument. She responded by saying, "You fucked up, you put your hands on me, don't make me shoot you." They were separated by backup that she called.