Recently an editorial and a U-T article raised the question as to whether the Sheriff’s Department has a worse problem with misuse of the California Law Enforcement Telecommunication System (CLETS) ...

For decades, law enforcement officials across California have had access to a powerful computer network that, with a few keystrokes from a desk terminal or patrol car, can access information on any ...

Shasta County agencies have investigated at least 12 incidents of law enforcement officers allegedly misusing a statewide communications system over the past two years. Two Shasta County Sheriff's ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies misused statewide informational databases thousands of times in 2023, according to a recent report. First reported in January by the Electronic ...

Police officers in California improperly accessed a state database of private information more than 7,000 times in 2023, according to a new report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a ...

Out of 16 investigations, five Riverside County employees resigned or were terminated last year after it was found abuse had occurred, according to data collected by the California Department of ...

NBC 7 Investigates has found multiple cases in which law enforcement officers have misused their access to the public’s sensitive information in San Diego County. According to an annual report to the ...

A report released in January by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital civil liberties organization, found that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department improperly accessed databases ...

(TNS) — For decades, law enforcement officials across California have had access to a powerful computer network that, with a few keystrokes from a desk terminal or patrol car, can access information ...

Federally recognized tribes now have access to the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, known as CLETS, a computer network that holds criminal histories, driver records and other ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department ...