LOS ANGELES — More than 300 Los Angeles police officers who worked in sensitive assignments gave notice Tuesday that they will file a negligence lawsuit against the city for allegedly endangering their lives by releasing their department photographs along with images of thousands of other cops under the state’s public records law.
The government claim, a required precursor in California to a lawsuit against the city, seeks damages for the Los Angeles Police Department’s alleged “negligent, improper and malicious” release of their names, photographs and other identifying information.
Those images, along with photos of 9,000 other LAPD officers, were posted online by an activist group last month. The claim shields the officers’ names, citing the potential harm to them and their work.
