- LAPD officers were instructed to collect civilians' social media details, per internal documents.
- Officers can fill out field interview cards for anyone they come in contact with.
- The Brennan Center for Justice warned against the collection of social media information.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) instructed officers to collect social media information of civilians that they interview on Field Interview cards, regardless of whether those civilians were arrested or cited, according to a report from the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonprofit and nonpartisan policy organization.
The report, released on Wednesday, found that a 2015 memo from former Police Chief Charlie Beck instructed officers to write on field interview (FI) cards the social media and email information of individuals they came in contact with.
"Similar to a nickname or an alias, a person's online persona or identity used for social media and communication can be highly beneficial to investigations and possibly even future outreach programs," the former chief of police wrote in the 2015 memo.
The Brennan Center report, based on internal LAPD documents obtained through a public records request, expressed concern with the department's monitoring of social media, particularly regarding what it calls a lack of oversight regarding officer use of social media and social media surveillance tools.
The LAPD told the Brennan Center in a response to its records request that it does "not track what (if...
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