la weekly re "shielded from scrutiny" 4/22/16 (re lapd police misconduct)
they wouldn't allow me to gain any information about the cops who injured me at the traffic accident. they could do all the background searches on me they wanted..they subpoened my teaching file and my hospital chaplain file...and just about everything else so they could "go fishing" about my life and try to find a speck in my eye, but I was not allowed to know a single thing about the cops backgrounds, experiences,even possible previous misconduct...it is ALL shielded from inspection. They could literally hire convicted felons and we the public would not be allowed to know it. Its really sleazy when you get too close to the reality of it. "
In Copley Press v. Superior Court, issued in 2006, the court ruled 6-1 to make the commission's proceedings secret. The ruling also closed off access to similar bodies across the state, including the Board of Rights, which handles disciplinary appeals at the Los Angeles Police Department, and the L.A. County Civil Service Commission, which performs the same function for the L.A. County Sheriff's Department...."http://www.laweekly.com/news/should-misbehaving-cops-be-shielded-from-public-scrutiny-6832927
