Public Complaint No. 1708008618 - 1042813590

Kenneth Amund Michaelson

Ventura County Sheriff's Department

800 South Victoria Avenue

Ventura, California 93009

(805) 654-2380

https://www.ventura…

Date of Offense

January 30, 2024

Complaint

Supporting Document(s)

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Statement

I was declared factually innocent in Ventura county after being misidentified from a geofence warrant. This officer lied in the probable cause affidavit, stating I moved south toward the crime, when in reality GPS showed me stationary.

Officer also did not conduct double blind lineup (13 days after my arrest) but marked the box for double blind. I was the only white guy in the line up.

In the lineup video, I was excluded by the victim with no documentation to state as much.

They also served a warrant at my residence at which point my grandmother had a gun held on her as she was walking down stairs. I was in custody at this point.

The officer most likely had assistance from a crime analyst to see my geofence google data before my arrest, How did they both get it wrong??

I believe they knew I was innocent the entire time.

Location

Camarillo, CA, USA

34.2163937, -119.0376023

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.”

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