Among the many, many issues raised by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old black kid in Ferguson, Missouri this week was police transparency. The Ferguson police initially refused to release the name of the officer who shot the victim, Michael Brown, leading to a national outcry.

It is one of the peculiarities of police departments that officers are afforded great privacy protections when they are involved in such an incident. Officer safety is cited, which is well and good, but police departments often feel no similar compunction to protect the identity of civilian suspects.

The ACLU threatened to sue the Ferguson police if its public records request was not fulfilled. "If they don't follow through, we will file a lawsuit and hold a press conference," the Missouri ACLU's Diane Balogh told The Huffington Post earlier this week. "There have been other situations where we've actually had to sue the police department because they haven't fulfilled the Sunshine Law requirements."

Ferguson police finally released the name of the officer in a press conference today. But here's some information the police didn't release: a narrative of how the shooting occurred, a use of force report from the police officer, or even how many times Brown was shot.

Meanwhile, the FAA refused to disclose details of why it put a no-fly order around Ferguson earlier this week: