In Tuesday’s Police Commission meeting, LAPD Chief Michel Moore said the city was required to release the photos under the California Public Records Act. But he said didn’t know why the…
The chief and commissioners of the Los Angeles Police Department scrambled Tuesday, March 21 to explain how photos of officers doing undercover work were apparently released as part of a public records request for the names and photos of nearly every sworn member of the force., a civil rights group and frequent department critic over its surveillance policies, published the names and photos of around 9,200 LAPD officers in a searchable database Friday, March 17.
“They are involved in criminal investigation — involving drug cartels and other violent street organizations — in which their identity, pursuant to court oversight and the Constitution is masked or protected,” he said. “They work in an undercover capacity.” The staff members said in a response to the records requester that they “would have to review and determine if there are any potential safety/security concerns regarding the disclosure of the individual officers’ photos.”
The release of the photos of the undercover officers led to anger from Commission President William Briggs and the union representing LAPD’s rank and file officers.
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