Washington Free Beacon ; A redesign of the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation website will make it harder for voters to inspect Sen.
Kamala Harris's controversial record as the state's top cop.
The department removed public access to a number of reports on
incarceration in the state, including when presidential candidate Kamala
Harris (D.) was California's attorney general . . . . 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.
The changes matter in part because the reports contain information
about Harris's entire time as state A.G., 2011 to 2017. Harris has taken
fire from multiple opponents for her "tough on crime" record as California's top cop, an image that she has tried to shed as a far-left senator and presidential candidate.
One particularly brutal attack came Wednesday night when Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D., Hi.) laid into Harris for her record on criminal justice. Gabbard cited a Washington Free Beacon analysis
— based in part on the ODP reports — that found that more than 1,500
Californians were sent to prison for marijuana-related offenses while
Harris was attorney general.
The data have been used in other Free Beacon reporting on Harris, specifically the finding that more than 120,000 black and Latino Californians were sent to prison while she was in the State A.G.'s office.
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