CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WINA) – Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall Brackney addressed allegations from one of her department’s harshest critics at a Wednesday news conference.

Civil rights attorney Jeff Fogel has frequently expressed concern that African-Americans are stopped-and-frisked at high rate and that officers and city officials are hiding it.

Earlier this year, he requested a stop-and-frisk report for January 1, 2018, through June 30, 2018. He specifically sought date, location, race of the person stopped, and the outcome of each stop-and-frisk. His request was denied, but Brackney says it’s because the department does not have the data Fogel requested in the format that he wanted. She says the department told Fogel it was willing to discuss retrieval of the information if Fogel was willing to pay the cost.

Brackney also feels that such information should include context.

“The data I want them to extract so we are responsible and transparent is not just who do we stop and what was their race,” said Brackney. “Were the encounters that we had 911 initiated, or were they officer-initiated? If they were an officer-initiated encounter, what was the context of that encounter? Was it a mere encounter or an investigatory detention?”

Brackney also pointed out Circuit Judge Richard Moore’s 2015 ruling that some of the information included is exempt from a Freedom of Information Act request because it is part of a criminal investigation. That ruling came as a result of a lawsuit filed by Fogel.

Brackney says her department is in the process of converting records from its previous software to a new program, which she hopes to see completed in two to three weeks. A part-time employee is manually extracting the data. She wants to hire a full-time staffer to conduct robust data reviews, and says City Council can expect that request in her upcoming budget.