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*Speaking on the second night of the Democratic presidential debates in Detroit last week, Representative Tulsi Gabbard, of Hawaii, slammed fellow candidate Kamala Harris over her arrest record as a prosecutor, saying the senator owed an apology to the people who “suffered under your reign.”
Days later, several key incarceration reports were removed from California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation website, allegedly as a part of a site redesign, the Washington Free Beacon first reported.
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From the report via (The Daily Caller):
Twice a year, the CDCR releases information about the number of new individuals incarcerated in the California prison system as part of its “Offender Data Points” series. These reports provide important information on demographics, sentence length, offense type, and other figures relevant to criminal justice and incarceration.
Until recently, these reports were publicly available at the CDCR’s website. A search using archive.org’s Wayback Machine reveals that as of April 25, 2019—the most recent indexed date—ODP reports were available dating back to the spring of 2009. As of August 2019, the same web page now serves only a single ODP report, the one for Spring 2019. The pre-2019 reports have been removed.
Gabbard also noted during Wednesday night’s Democratic debate: “I want to bring the conversation back to the criminal justice system that is disproportionately, negatively affecting black and brown people today,”
Adding, “Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president, but I’m deeply concerned about this record of Senator Harris’,” the Hawaiian congresswoman said.
CDCR assistant secretary for communications Jeffrey Callison told the Free Beacon that the website update had nothing to do with Harris’ campaign.
“Making our website fully compliant was a significant and ongoing undertaking,” Callison told the publication. “It required a redesign of the look and feel of the website, and a need to evaluate all of the thousands of documents and other files that were linked to our website.”
Callison noted that older reports are “still available upon request.”
However, Fox News host Tucker Carlson ain’t buying it, and accuses officials of “making that information very hard to find.”
“Until recently, anybody could read these reports online,” said Tucker. “That’s called transparency because it’s our government, right? Supposedly? Not anymore. The corrections department just redesigned the website and now, all reports prior to this year, immediately including those covering Kamala Harris’ six years as Attorney general have been removed. They are no longer publicly accessible. Theoretically, you can still get those reports if you email the right person and they feel like responding. But the information is far harder to get. And of course, that’s the entire point. In California, they know that an ignorant public is much easier to control.”
