Brady Offense No. 1691604747 - 1730967840

Rafael M Rodriguez

Los Angeles Police Department

100 West 1st Street

Los Angeles, California 90012

(877) 275-5273

http://lapdonline.o…

Date of Offense

May 4, 2012

Offense(s)

Supporting Document(s)

Complaint and Relief from Duty

Definition of Offense(s)

False Statements

False statements by a police officer fall under the category of police misconduct and refer to instances where a police officer deliberately makes false or misleading statements under oath, in official reports, or in any other official capacity.

Misconduct

The term police misconduct refers to illegal or inappropriate action engaged in by law enforcement officers.

Use of Force

Police brutality is the use of excessive and unnecessary force on the part of a police officer when he is interacting with a civilian, resulting in a violation of the civilian’s civil rights.

Abuse of Authority

Police corruption is the abuse of police authority for personal gain. Corruption may involve profit or another type of material benefit gained illegally as a consequence of the officer's authority.

California Public Records Act

§6250-6268

The California Public Records Act is a series of laws meant to guarantee that the public has access to public records of governmental bodies in California. In December of 2011, a Superior Court judge ruled that the California Assembly must also disclose budget records of individual lawmakers, after some California newspapers filed a lawsuit accusing legislators of flouting the state’s open records laws.

Public records in the California Public Records Act are defined as “any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public’s business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics.” There is a separate category of “purely personal information” that, although it may be in the custody of a government agency, does not fall under the act. Statute 6255 states a catch all exemption, “The agency shall justify withholding any record by demonstrating that the record in question is exempt under express provisions of this chapter or that on the facts of the particular case the public interest served by not disclosing the record clearly outweighs the public interest served by disclosure of the record.”

Anyone can request public documents in California, and a purpose does not have to be stated. The California Public Records Act does not regulate the use of records obtained from public agencies. One should allow 10 days for an agency to comply with a records request.

We the People

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Brady Offense No. 1691604747 - 1730967840

Date of Offense

Offense(s)

Supporting Document(s)

Definition of Offense(s)

False Statements

Misconduct

Use of Force

Abuse of Authority

California Public Records Act

We the People

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Records

Open Letters

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