SAN FRANCISCO — The parents of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji filed a lawsuit Friday claiming San Francisco officials have wrongly denied them access to reports detailing the police investigation of his late November death.
Balaji’s mother and father accuse the San Francisco Police Department of “illegally withholding public records” that might shed light on the nature of Balaji’s death, according to the lawsuit filed in county court. It comes as the family has increasingly questioned the circumstances of Balaji’s death, despite San Francisco’s medical examiner and police department maintaining that he died by suicide.
In their lawsuit, the parents asked a judge to force officials to hand over police reports detailing the discovery of Balaji’s body, which was found Nov. 26 in his Lower Haight apartment. Their attorneys, Joseph Goethals and Kevin Rooney, took issue with the police department’s claim that the documents cannot be released amid an ongoing investigation, suggesting that police have acted otherwise.
“In the two-plus months since their son’s passing, Petitioners and their counsel have been stymied at every turn as they have sought more information about the cause of and circumstances surrounding Suchir’s tragic death,” the lawsuit said. “This petition, they hope, is the beginning of the end of that obstruction.”
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