{"id":38528,"date":"2025-04-11T11:28:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/cop-city-legal-case-could-cast-spotlight-on-us-police-foundations-activities\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T11:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:28:29","slug":"cop-city-legal-case-could-cast-spotlight-on-us-police-foundations-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/cop-city-legal-case-could-cast-spotlight-on-us-police-foundations-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cop City\u2019 legal case could cast spotlight on US police foundations\u2019 activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case related to Atlanta project raises issue of state open record laws, and whether they apply to police foundations<\/p>\n<p>A legal case in Atlanta stemming from the controversial \u201cCop City\u201d project is being closely watched because it has the potential to cast a spotlight on the activities of police foundations nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The case raises the issue of state open records laws, and whether they apply to police foundations. The private foundations exist in every major US city, with more than 250 nationwide, according to a 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/policefoundations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Color-Of-Change-Report-Police-Foundations-A-Corporate-Sponsored-Threat-to-Democracy-Black-Lives.pdf\">report<\/a> by research and activist groups Little Sis and Color of Change.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/11\/copy-city-legal-case-police-foundations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case related to Atlanta project raises issue of state open record laws, and whether they apply to police foundations A legal case in Atlanta stemming from the controversial \u201cCop City\u201d project is being closely watched because it has the potential to cast a spotlight on the activities of police foundations nationwide. The case raises the &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Cop City\u2019 legal case could cast spotlight on US police foundations\u2019 activities\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/cop-city-legal-case-could-cast-spotlight-on-us-police-foundations-activities\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Cop City\u2019 legal case could cast spotlight on US police foundations\u2019 activities\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}