A judge of the County of Los Angeles rejected a legal action filed by the union for basic police against a LAPD commander accused of having access to the emails, surveys and documents intended only for the lower row cops.
In a decision on Monday, the judge of the High Court of the Bruce Iwasaki County fell on the side of CMDR. Lillian Carranza and his co-defender, deputy chief Marc Reina, who argued that the Los Angeles Police Protective League had not proven the illegal access and fraud allegations on computer data.
Iwasaki wrote that the league had not made clear allegation of the “damage or losses” which he suffered following Carranza’s actions, which focused on access to a union survey with its members, which are all lower than the grade of captain. Carranza and other command agents have their own separate union.
Among other legal technicities, Iwasaki wrote that the company Survey Monkey had the investigation in question – not the League.
The prosecution has been rejected “with prejudice”, which means that it cannot be overlooked.
Carranza refused to discuss the decision when she was made this week, saying that she wanted to explore her legal options first.
Reina, who heads the department office who oversees training and recruitment, did not respond to a request for comments. Until recently, he was also president of the agent of the Los Angeles police command, the union for the management of the department.
The pursuit of the league, tabled last year, accused Carranza of having accessed the union’s website by pretending to be a lower rank officer and filling in a survey intended to note the supervisors. Carranza argued in court documents that she had used her name when connecting and stressed that she and other command staff regularly used the league system to access the advantages of their agency.
In a letter to the union of command officers last December, the president of the League, Craig Lally, said that the access of command agents at the “Portal of advantages” would be cut by the end of the year.
A vocal message left for Lally did not stay over Thursday.
League officials said that a digital legal medicine company hired to investigate the case revealed that Carranza had opened around 49 “confidential emails” that the union had sent to its members from 2016 to 2024, allegedly undermined the credibility of the union.
The trial came in the midst of an intensification dispute between the League and Carranza, a franc commander of the Central Bureau of LAPD, who has among the past on the department for his treatment of officers and underestimated statistics on crime.
The league has demonstrated to prosecute Carranza, calling a press conference, publishing YouTube videos and taking her subtle blows in the pages of her monthly magazine, Thin Blue Line. Carranza also attracted the league anger when she came to the defense of a captain who insisted on carrying out an investigation for force on an incident involving two of his officers.
The union – whose members include most LAPD officers, detectives, sergeants and lieutenants – argued that the morale of the department is low because Carranza and other commanders lack responsibility.
In addition to publicly criticizing Carranza, the union also distinguished other senior officials – namely Reina and Michael Rimkunas, another deputy chief who oversees internal surveys.
Carranza, who was promoted to captain in 2012 and made the commander in 2023, applied for the work of the LAPD chief, who was canceled when Michel Moore retired in February 2024. Sources previously told Times that Carranza was part of a certain number of candidates who were invited for a second series of interviews.
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