LAT: Misuse of SW seizure by police leads to $1m verdict

LATimes: Former CHP officer awarded $1 million over sexual material shared during overtime probe by Caroline Petrow-Cohen and James Queally (“Years after a controversial overtime fraud probe, a Los Angeles County jury has awarded a former California Highway Patrol employee $1million in damages after she sued the agency for mishandling sexual content found on her cellphone. [¶] Doris Peniche, a former CHP overtime coordinator at the East Los Angeles office, claimed her colleagues improperly viewed and shared her sexual photos and videos after obtaining the material through a search warrant.”)

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