Kimbriell Kelly is an American journalist and expert on public records requests,[1] currently working as Washington Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times.
[1] In 2019,[7] Kelly left the Post to become the deputy editor for Enterprise and Investigations in the Washington Bureau of the Los Angeles Times.
Kelly was one of 70 staffers from multiple departments assembled the database and compiled stories, photos, data, graphics, and videos about trends revealed by the information.
The Fatal Force project, on which Kelly was one of the lead authors (also see Wesley Lowery), won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016,[14] and the Justice Department announced a pilot program to begin collecting a more comprehensive set of use-of-force statistics in 2017.
Kelly explained that the project "raised greater accountability in how statistics nationally are kept and prompted an overhaul of those efforts.