JAY-Z’s Team ROC has initiated legal action against the Kansas City Police Department and the government

“People with badges have broken the public’s trust…” People who act in that way need to be held accountable.

Team ROC, which is led by JAY-Z, has sued the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department and the city’s government for not turning over police records. The case also includes claims of corruption and civil rights abuses.

The Kansas City Police Department and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas are both named as defendants in the lawsuit, which was filed on November 19. It says that both of them failed to provide the requested papers in a “timely manner.”

Team ROC says that the defendants’ refusal to fully comply with their requests breaks public records laws because the Kansas City Police Department has not sent the documents that were asked for.

Dania Diaz, managing director of Team Roc, says that the group has only gotten three of the sixteen documents they asked for under the Kansas Open Records Act. Most of the documents they have received have nothing to do with their questions.

“This filing is being made because people with badges have broken the public’s trust…” “People who act in that way need to be held accountable,” Diaz told NBC News. The latest file by Team Roc is part of the group’s ongoing work to uncover and get rid of the corruption and bias in the Kansas government and in states across the country.

In 2022, JAY-Z and Team Roc helped push for an investigation into Roger Golubski, a former detective in Kansas City. Golubski was charged with federal civil rights crimes for sex crimes against Black women and falsely accusing innocent people of crimes they did not commit.

The case, which was first seen by NBC News, says that the KCKPD has been abusing and performing other major wrongdoings against communities in Kansas City, Kansas for many years, especially minority and immigrant communities.

The KCKPD has a long history of covering up (at best) or turning a blind eye to (at worst) cruel and/or corrupt behavior by its officers, rather than supporting an open and honest culture.