It also makes the Sheriff’s Department an outlier among some of California’s largest law enforcement agencies. The killing of Andres Guardado, 18, by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy prompted large protests. He then backtracked and said that the Sheriff Department’s practice of not releasing deputies’ names is under review. The state’s high court ruled police agencies cannot use general concerns about officer safety to justify withholding names and, barring a specific threat, must make deputies’ names public. It was, according to sheriff’s officials, the first deputy shooting captured on Sheriff’s Department-issued body cameras.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 06, 2021 18:09 UTC