Which U.S. police departments have publicly released travel records or MOUs showing trips to Israel?
Executive summary
Reporting reviewed for this brief shows one clear example in the public record of travel-related documents: open records tied to the Atlanta Police Department and Fulton County SWAT training were published by local activists and press, indicating domestic documentation of Israel-related trainings or exercises [1]. Numerous U.S. police agencies are repeatedly reported to have sent leaders to Israel through exchange programs, but the sources provided do not show that those agencies broadly “publicly released travel records or MOUs” proving those trips—except for the Atlanta example cited above [2] [1].
1. What the question actually asks and how sources were used
The user’s query seeks agencies that have publicly released documentary proof—travel records or memoranda of understanding (MOUs)—showing trips to Israel, not merely media reports that departments traveled; the material reviewed therefore distinguishes between (a) reporting that officers attended Israel exchanges (a frequent claim across outlets) and (b) actual public records or released MOUs documenting those trips, which are rarer in the reviewed reporting [3] [4].
2. The one documented public release found: Atlanta
The clearest instance in the assembled reporting of a public-document disclosure is the Atlanta case: the Atlanta Community Press Collective posted open records about training exercises involving the Atlanta Police Department and Fulton County SWAT that related to “Hamas terrorist” scenarios, and other reporting ties Atlanta delegations to Israel and to a Jerusalem-modeled camera command center after a 2008 delegation [1] [2].
3. Departments widely reported to have sent officers to Israel (reports, not necessarily released records)
Multiple sources report that senior personnel from many U.S. agencies have attended Israel exchanges—examples named in the reporting include the Los Angeles Police Department (chief and deputy chief trips in the 2000s) [5], New York Police Department delegations and even a NYPD office in Israel [1] [2], Baltimore (training on crowd control cited by Amnesty and later summaries) [6], Memphis (senior leaders including Chief Cerelyn Davis participated in exchanges) [7], and various Georgia agencies and dozens of other city, county and state departments listed across advocacy and mainstream pieces [5] [2] [1]. Several organizations report “more than 200” U.S. federal, state, county and municipal law enforcement executives participating through programs run by non‑profits such as JINSA and ADL [3] [8].
4. Why reported travel ≠ publicly released travel records or MOUs
While reporting and advocacy dossiers catalogue delegations and name departments that sent personnel to Israel, the sources make clear that many of those claims rest on program rosters, advocacy research and organizational statements rather than municipal disclosures of travel invoices, MOUs, or formal trip-by-trip travel logs—documents the reviewed sources did not consistently publish for agencies other than Atlanta’s open‑records example [3] [4] [2]. Where advocacy groups assert broad participation (Deadly Exchange, JVP, Amnesty), the underlying documentation varies and is often aggregated rather than presented as individual agency MOUs or travel manifests [4] [8].
5. Competing narratives, hidden agendas and what to watch for
Advocacy groups and critics emphasize human‑rights and militarization concerns and often compile lists of departments they say participated in exchanges [4] [5]; conversely, program organizers such as JINSA defend exchanges and cite aggregate participation figures without releasing detailed per‑agency travel MOUs publicly [3]. These differing incentives—advocates seeking to document systemic exchange practices and program backers defending national‑security rationales—mean that searchable, agency-level public disclosures (travel reimbursements, MOUs, trip itineraries) are unevenly available in the public record provided here [3] [8].
6. Bottom line and reporting limitations
Based on the documents and reporting supplied, Atlanta Police Department (and affiliated Fulton County SWAT reporting) is the clearest example of publicly disclosed records tied to Israel-related trainings in the sources reviewed [1] [2]. Many other departments—LAPD, NYPD, Baltimore, Memphis, state-level agencies and dozens more—are repeatedly reported to have sent personnel to Israel or attended Israel-related programs, but the reviewed sources do not consistently present municipal travel records or MOUs publicly released by those departments as documentary proof [5] [9] [6] [7] [3]. Where this answer cannot confirm a public MOU or travel log, that reflects the limitation of the available reporting rather than a claim those records do not exist.