Tue Sep 14, 2021 – 12:14 pm EDTTue Sep 14, 2021 – 12:19 pm EDT
LOS ANGELES, CA (LifeSiteNews) – The Los Angeles Police Department is telling its officers to ask for social media identities from everyone they stop, regardless of whether or not they are guilty of a crime.
Documents obtained by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law include a July 2020 internal memo from Police Chief Michel Moore telling officers that the data collection from field interview cards (FI cards) is crucial for “investigations, arrests and prosecutions.” Another document from May 2015 states that social media and email communications can be “highly beneficial to investigations and possibly even to future outreach programs.”
The Brennan Center released a report last Wednesday that details LAPD’s practice. The report shows documents dating back at least to 2009, when the program was in its infancy.
In response to the Brennan Center’s request for information, the LAPD stated that it does “not track what (if anything) [its] employees monitor,” and that it “has not conducted any audits regarding the use of social media.” Further, most of the people stopped by LAPD officers who were documented in
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