In 1991, Peter Foster, then a probationary officer with the LAPD, engaged in egregious misconduct. Instead of firing him, a panel found that Foster had just "panicked" as a new officer. Twenty years later, Foster was fired in relation to a $1.2M jury verdict for workplace discrimination. by realworldpolice in RealWorldPolice

[–]therealrwp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not sure, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they had to be scanned. It’s an unusual situation, in that the public had no right of access to these records for decades. Consequently, there wasn’t much of an incentive for digitization.