Undercover Los Angeles police file claims in photo backlash
1 year, 8 months ago

Undercover Los Angeles police file claims in photo backlash

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — More than 300 undercover Los Angeles police officers filed legal claims against the city and police department Tuesday after their names and photographs were released to a technology watchdog group that posted them online. The watchdog group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition posted more than 9,300 officers’ information and photographs last month in a searchable online database following a public records request by a reporter for progressive news outlet Knock LA. The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition opposes police intelligence-gathering and says the database should be used for “countersurveillance.” Attorney Matthew McNicholas said 321 undercover officers filed legal claims, the precursor to a lawsuit, through his office and more are expected to come forward. Tuesday’s claims follow separate lawsuits filed last month by the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union that represents the department’s rank-and-file officers.

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Many ‘undercover’ officers in lawsuit over LAPD photos are just regular cops, city says
1 month, 1 week ago

Many ‘undercover’ officers in lawsuit over LAPD photos are just regular cops, city says

LA Times  

Hundreds of LAPD officers claim that releasing their photos had put them in danger because they worked undercover, but city attorneys now say none of those involved are “true full-time ‘undercover officers.’” After arguing for more than a year that hundreds of undercover LAPD officers were at risk because their photos were mistakenly made public, the city of Los Angeles …

L.A. will pay $300,000 to settle lawsuit over undercover police officer photos
6 months, 1 week ago

L.A. will pay $300,000 to settle lawsuit over undercover police officer photos

LA Times  

The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay the legal bills for a local journalist and a group of activists whom it took to court last year for publishing photographs of LAPD officers, part of a tentative settlement that will end a lawsuit some saw as an assault on media freedom. Stop LAPD Spying Coalition organizer Hamid Khan said …

City’s lawsuit seeks to shift blame over release of LAPD undercover officer photos
10 months, 3 weeks ago

City’s lawsuit seeks to shift blame over release of LAPD undercover officer photos

LA Times  

In an increasingly tangled legal battle over the publication of LAPD officers’ photos on a police watchdog website last year, the city of Los Angeles has taken new legal action against the journalist and activist group that obtained the images through a public records request. The move follows several hundred city police officers’ suing the city in a case that …

After release of officer photos, emails show LAPD union leaned on chief to act
1 year, 4 months ago

After release of officer photos, emails show LAPD union leaned on chief to act

LA Times  

The day after an activist group published the photos and names of thousands of Los Angeles police officers in March, a top police union official emailed LAPD Chief Michel Moore and warned that the department’s initial response was not strong enough for the rank and file’s liking. Jerretta Sandoz, vice president of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, wrote Moore …

L.A. Times, media coalition oppose L.A. lawsuit to claw back police photos from journalist
1 year, 7 months ago

L.A. Times, media coalition oppose L.A. lawsuit to claw back police photos from journalist

LA Times  

The city of Los Angeles has sued a local journalist and an activist group after officials accidentally released photos of undercover officers through a public records request. “Granting the City’s request would encourage future lawsuits of this kind,” the group wrote, “chilling the dissemination of important information in records obtained through public records requests, and undercutting the vital role of …

Since photos’ release, LAPD has been quietly scrubbing police rosters from portal
1 year, 8 months ago

Since photos’ release, LAPD has been quietly scrubbing police rosters from portal

LA Times  

As the hand-wringing at Los Angeles Police Department headquarters continues over the release of police officers’ pictures, the city has been quietly scrubbing the names and ranks of cops from its public records website. Earlier this month, hawk-eyed LAPD watchers began noticing the disappearance from the city’s records portal of LAPD personnel rosters that had previously been released through a …

A big question remains amid LAPD photo scandal: Just who is an undercover officer?
1 year, 8 months ago

A big question remains amid LAPD photo scandal: Just who is an undercover officer?

LA Times  

Los Angeles police officers stand outside their department as crowds block Main and First Streets in downtown Los Angeles. California LAPD police union sues Chief Moore, wants images of undercover officers taken offline LAPD union sues the chief to prompt him to get undercover officer photos off the web, and wants the activist website Watching the Watchers taken down until …

L.A. sues journalist, activist group to claw back photos of undercover officers
1 year, 8 months ago

L.A. sues journalist, activist group to claw back photos of undercover officers

LA Times  

The city of Los Angeles has sued a local journalist and an activist group after officials accidentally released photos of undercover officers through a public records request. The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a technology oversight group advocating for police abolishment, called it “an attack on the public’s ability to request, analyze, and publish public records.” Susan Seager, an attorney for …

Hundreds of ‘undercover’ LAPD officers take step to sue city over release of photos
1 year, 8 months ago

Hundreds of ‘undercover’ LAPD officers take step to sue city over release of photos

LA Times  

More than 300 Los Angeles police officers who worked in sensitive assignments gave notice Tuesday that they will file a negligence lawsuit against the city for allegedly endangering their lives by releasing their department photographs along with images of thousands of other cops under the state’s public records law. “The City of Los Angeles’ reckless production of the undercover officers’ …

LAPD police union sues Chief Moore, wants images of undercover officers taken offline
1 year, 8 months ago

LAPD police union sues Chief Moore, wants images of undercover officers taken offline

LA Times  

The union representing Los Angeles police rank and file sued Chief Michel Moore on Tuesday to force the department to stop making officers’ photos public and to claw back images of undercover officers given out under the state’s public records law. That’s a legal term.” He said the union has a broader definition of “undercover” than the public: “any officer …

Names, photos of Los Angeles undercover police posted online
1 year, 9 months ago

Names, photos of Los Angeles undercover police posted online

Associated Press  

The Los Angeles police chief and the department’s constitutional policing director are under investigation after the names and photographs of undercover officers were released to a technology watchdog group that posted them online, the Los Angeles Times reported. The watchdog group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition posted more than 9,300 officers’ information and photographs last Friday in a searchable online database, …

Report condemns Los Angeles police tactics amid civil unrest
3 years, 9 months ago

Report condemns Los Angeles police tactics amid civil unrest

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — A new report excoriated Los Angeles police for the department’s actions during last summer’s protests following the death of George Floyd, blaming the agency for a litany of missteps made on the city’s streets. The LAPD report came as two Northern California civil rights organizations and demonstrators, including a man who lost his right eye, filed a …

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