The officers' names were not listed on the court documents. "The LAPD and the Police Protective League is really sensationalizing this information."Īttorney Matthew McNicholas said 321 undercover officers filed legal claims, the precursor to a lawsuit, through his office and more are expected to come forward. "There's so many different portals that have the information about the officers already, so it's not that this is the first time it's been published," said Hamid Khan with the coalition. The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition opposes police intelligence-gathering and says the database should be used for "counter surveillance." They created the site for the public. While the city attorney's office determined the agency was legally required to turn over the records - which includes a photograph and information on each officer including name, ethnicity, rank, date of hire, badge number and division or bureau - under California law, exemptions are often made for safety or investigative reasons. The inspector general is investigating Chief Michel Moore and the agency's constitutional policing director Liz Rhodes after an officers' union filed a misconduct complaint. The officers were not given advance notice of the disclosure, and the backlash has roiled the department. Hundreds of undercover officers were included in the database, although it's not clear exactly how many because the database doesn't specify which officers work undercover. 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. LOS ANGELES (KABC) - 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 department had not previously raised the issue of officer safety in arguing against their release, he said.More than 300 undercover LAPD officers filed claims against the city and department after their names and photos were released to a watchdog group. The Knock LA reporter, Ben Camacho, tweeted that he filed the records request as well as a lawsuit last year to get the photographs. Police officials say the database's photos pose safety risks to officers who are currently undercover, as well as those who might work in that capacity in the future. “We will look to what steps or added steps can be taken to safeguard the personal identifiers of our membership,” Moore said Tuesday. While the city attorney's office determined the agency was legally required to turn over the records under California law, exemptions are often made for safety or investigative reasons.
The department's release of the undercover officers' names and photographs was inadvertent, the Times reported. “Police have vast information about all of us at their fingertips, yet they move in secrecy.” “You can use it to identify officers who are causing harm in your community” the group wrote.
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition opposes police intelligence-gathering and says the database should be used for “countersurveillance.” It was not immediately clear how many of the officers listed were undercover. The database includes information on each officer including name, ethnicity, rank, date of hire, badge number and division or bureau. The watchdog group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition posted more than 9,300 officers' information and photographs Friday in a searchable online database, the Times reported, following a public records request by a reporter for progressive news outlet Knock LA. LAPD Chief Michel Moore offered his “deep apologies” to the undercover officers, who were not given advance notice of the disclosure, during a police commission meeting Tuesday. 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.
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