The veteran employees, who have worked a combined 45 years at the agency, allege the deficiencies have resulted in false and misleading court testimony.
Two senior employees of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department allege they have been retaliated against after reporting deficiencies in the department’s fingerprinting process that they claim are putting the agency at risk.
The failures center on the lack of fingerprint supervisors in the records and identification bureau. Supervisors ensure quality control and the accuracy of all fingerprints processed by technicians, the claim states. “As it stands, the current staffing model is problematic because there are numerous days where minimum staffing is the standard of the day,” Singh said in her memo, in which she noted that the reduced staffing “essentially precludes the ability to completely perform fingerprint verifications and identification.”
Fingerprint technicians often are subpoenaed to testify at criminal trials as to the integrity of the department’s fingerprinting process, and the deficiencies at the department could potentially jeopardize thousands of criminal cases winding their way through the pretrial process, Scott said.The sheriff’s identification and records bureau processes about 1,000 sets of fingerprints a week, depending on the number of people arrested, and serves all of Los Angeles County, Scott said.
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