The UCLA Information Studies Department hosted the Hackathon on Police Brutality Data in Los Angeles County on Saturday February 14th from 12 pm - 6 pm. The event looked to engage those interested in community organizing, social justice, hacking, data mining with the unique and imperfect data sets regarding police brutality in LA County. This hackathon examined how police brutality data is captured and disseminated among state and federal organizations and worked to bring attention to the existing data, as well as the holes in existing data, through data mining, discussion and visualization.

The event kicked off at noon with pizza and a panel of speakers from the LA Times' Homicide Report, USC's Innovation Lab and the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. 

Following the panel discussion, we broke into sessions determined and organized by responses to the registration questions. The 'Projects' and 'Social Media Supplement' sections show what happened at the break-out sessions.