A Southern California police agency is using Lego faces to hide the faces of suspects arrested for nonviolent crimes to comply with a state law.
A California police department is using a creative solution to hide the identities of some suspects by covering their faces with Lego heads in booking photos and mugshots. The Murrieta Police Department explained on Monday that the placement of Lego faces is an effort to comply with a state law that prohibits law enforcement agencies from sharing images of suspects arrested for nonviolent crimes on social media.
'The Murrieta Police Department prides itself on its transparency with the community, but also honors everyone’s rights & protections as afforded by law; even suspects,' the department said in a Facebook post. The MPD started using Lego faces to obscure the faces of some criminal suspects long before the law went into effect on Jan.1, a police spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
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