From: CalMatters
By: Nigel Duara, 5/22/2025
RLS senior associate attorney Michael A. Morguess
Excerpt:
In 1991, in the months after four Los Angeles Police Department officers were filmed beating motorist Rodney King, a number of California cities created easier pathways for the public to file complaints about police officers.
But the Legislature was concerned with “less ethical citizens (who would) maliciously file false allegations of misconduct against officers in an effort to punish them for simply doing their jobs,” according to a federal court decision years later.
So the Legislature instituted a new requirement: Anyone filing a complaint against an officer could face criminal charges if they knowingly signed a false report[...]
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