Which specific U.S. police chiefs and municipal agencies are named in FOIA disclosures as having participated in ADL or GILEE Israel trips?
Executive summary
Reporting assembled by advocacy groups and journalists names a number of specific U.S. police chiefs and municipal law‑enforcement agencies that have participated in ADL or GILEE Israel exchange trips, including New York Police Department senior intelligence official Galati, former chiefs such as Bill Bratton, Peachtree City Chief Janet Moon, Prince George’s County Chief Henry Stawinski, Suffolk County Chief Geraldine Hart, and multiple Georgia chiefs who attended GILEE delegations [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. None of the provided documents are labeled or cited as a verbatim FOIA disclosure list; the sources are media reporting, advocacy compilations, organizational statements and itineraries [6] [7] [8].
1. Who the reporting names: individual chiefs and senior officers
Multiple published reports and advocacy profiles explicitly name individual officers who went on Israel exchanges: the NYPD intelligence chief Galati is documented as traveling on an ADL National Counter‑Terrorism Seminar (NCTS) trip in 2010 [1], former Los Angeles and New York policing figure Bill Bratton is reported to have made multiple official trips to Israel while LA police chief [1], and Peachtree City Chief Janet Moon describes attending a Friedmann/GILEE or similar program in 2015 [2]. Reporting also identifies Prince George’s County police chief Henry Stawinski as a frequent participant in international exchange programs [3], and Suffolk County’s Geraldine Hart is named by ADL material as a participant in ADL seminars in Israel [4].
2. Municipal agencies and institutional participants named in reporting
Coverage cites whole agencies and municipal programs as involved: the New York Police Department (NYPD) through senior intelligence leadership and exchange visits [1], Los Angeles Police Department delegations prior to 2002 and continuing contacts [1], Prince George’s County Police as a participant via its chief [3], and multiple Georgia municipal departments represented in GILEE delegations — the program has included “12 Georgia police chiefs and command staff, three Georgia sheriffs, the former director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and members of the Department of Justice, Georgia Public Safety Training Center, and Georgia Department of Public Safety” in recent delegations [5]. The ADL itself states more than 1,000 senior U.S. police officers have visited Israel through ADL and partner programs, indicating departmental representation across cities [2] [8].
3. The role of GILEE and ADL in producing participant lists — and the FOIA gap
Advocacy projects like Deadly Exchange and news outlets compile participant names and profiles drawn from public records, organizational itineraries, press releases, and internal memos; they assert that heads of major departments and associations have participated in ADL, JINSA, and GILEE exchanges [9] [7]. The Guardian and Jewish Currents reported on a leaked ADL draft memo about the program (described as obtained documents) but the materials provided here do not include a primary FOIA release that lists every named participant; none of the supplied snippets is explicitly presented as a FOIA disclosure containing a comprehensive roster [6] [10]. Therefore, while specific chiefs and agencies are named in reporting, the supplied sources do not present a single FOIA document that can be cited as the authoritative FOIA roster.
4. Alternative viewpoints, agendas and source limitations
ADL and some participants defend the exchanges as counter‑terrorism and community‑resilience training and note itineraries that include Holocaust sites and Palestinian police engagements [4] [2], while critics and campaigns such as Deadly Exchange and Jewish Voice for Peace argue the trips militarize U.S. policing and publish compiled participant profiles to pressure municipal bans [7] [11]. The reporting sometimes relies on organizational lists, internal memos, local news coverage, and advocacy databases rather than a single, government‑released FOIA list; that methodological limitation means claims about the full scope of named participants rest on compiled reporting rather than a verified FOIA roster in the provided materials [8] [7] [6].
5. Bottom line
Named in the assembled reporting are NYPD intelligence chief Galati (NCTS, 2010) and other high‑profile chiefs such as Bill Bratton, Janet Moon (Peachtree City), Henry Stawinski (Prince George’s County), Geraldine Hart (Suffolk County), and multiple Georgia chiefs and sheriffs who traveled with GILEE — and municipal agencies including the NYPD, LAPD, Prince George’s County Police and a broad set of Georgia law‑enforcement entities are specifically referenced [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. The specific FOIA disclosures that the question requests — a formal FOIA roster naming participants — are not included among the supplied sources; the conclusions above are drawn from media coverage, advocacy compilations and organizational statements cited here [6] [7] [8].