Re:San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance
by mark212 on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:50PM
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It’s classified the same as other confidential information. There was a senior detective fired because she mishandled the same class of info on a case, so yeah there are serious consequences for breaking these rules. It’s not at all like corporate policies.
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Re:San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance
by Terr_ on Monday April 01, 2019 @10:46PM
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So... No criminal charges, just fired? How is that markedly different?
The subtext of my post was that virtuously rigorous guidelines with no enforcement mechanism are a paper tiger.
Re:San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance
by mark212 on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:48PM
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anything short of criminal charges is "no enforcement mechanism"? You do realize that if you're a POST-certified peace officer and terminated for cause (1) you lose your pension and (2) are utterly unemployable by any other law enforcement agency. That means you're in your mid-50s and can't find a job in the field you've worked in for a few decades, and probably can't get hired as a security guard because lack of POST certification means you can't carry a gun on the job.
It's quite a harsh punishment for accessing records inappropriately.