Source: https://www.lucyparsonslabs.com/projects
Publisher: Lucy Parsons Labs
Date Published: N/A (ongoing organizational projects page)
Relevant To: Peer surveillance-accountability organization; OpenOversight in particular is a directly relevant open-source officer-identification/accountability tool model
Verification Status: Verified (direct fetch blocked by site robots.txt; confirmed via multiple independent secondary sources — OpenOversight’s own about page, InfluenceWatch, and LPL’s GitHub organization)
Notes: Lucy Parsons Labs (LPL) is a Chicago-based, Illinois-registered 501(c)(3) of data scientists/privacy activists focused on police surveillance and accountability. Flagship project: OpenOversight, a free/open-source, crowdsourced-and-public-data searchable database of law enforcement officer identities (photos, badge numbers, demographic estimates) first launched in Chicago (2016) and since forked/expanded to Baltimore, Seattle, NYC, and an independent Virginia instance (OpenOversightVA). Built specifically to help the public identify officers involved in negative interactions for filing misconduct complaints, since (per LPL) 28% of Chicago police-misconduct complaints from 2011-2015 were dropped for lack of officer identification. Other LPL work highlighted: successful 2014 litigation forcing disclosure of Chicago PD’s Stingray (IMSI catcher) purchases; a multi-year investigation into CPD/Cook County/Illinois civil asset forfeiture practices (contributing to a documented decline in CPD forfeiture activity since 2019); a lawsuit against Chicago’s ShotSpotter gunshot-detection contract; and, per outside sources (InfluenceWatch), a 2024-25 partnership with the Atlanta Community Press Collective that forced disclosure of Atlanta Police Foundation “Cop City” documents under Georgia’s Open Records Act. LPL is an EFF member organization. Relevant to BPA as a peer advocacy/tooling organization — OpenOversight in particular is a directly reusable open-source model for officer-accountability tooling.