The parents of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji have sued The City, seeking access to records related to the San Francisco police investigation into his death.
In a complaint filed Friday in Superior Court in San Francisco, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy alleged that San Francisco Police Department officials informed them in December the department had closed its investigation. Despite that, the SFPD has denied their request, filed under the California Public Records Act, for a copy of its inquiry report, Ramarao and Ramamurthy said in their suit.
As part of their suit, Balaji’s parents asked the court to order The City to release all nonexempt records related to the police investigation.
“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,” Ramarao and Ramamurthy’s attorneys wrote in the filing. “This petition, they hope, is the beginning of the end of that obstruction.”
The police department appears to be talking out both sides of its mouth, said Kevin Rooney, a Stockton-based attorney who represents Balaji’s parents. SFPD officials are saying the investigation is over and they’ve determined he died of suicide, while also saying that it’s an open investigation and they haven’t made a conclusion and so can’t release their report, Rooney said.
“They can’t have it both ways,” he said.
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