Here's a no-registration-required URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/04/08/state2143EDT0171.DTL -Declan --- http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-celebs8apr08,1,1932749.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dcalifornia Officer's Star Searches Raise Liability Worries City studies possible legal fallout from use of police computer to get data on celebrities. April 8, 2003 By Wendy Thermos, Times Staff Writer For six years, Officer Kelly Chrisman used Los Angeles Police Department computers to look up confidential law enforcement records on celebrities and other high-profile people, including Sharon Stone, Courteney Cox Arquette, Sean Penn and Halle Berry. Chrisman says he was just carrying out orders from superiors, but a lawsuit recently settled by the city for nearly $400,000 alleged that the officer had accessed the records to sell the information to tabloids. Now Los Angeles officials are assessing the city's potential liability. According to internal LAPD documents, between 1994 and 2000 Chrisman tapped computer files on scores of celebrities, including Meg Ryan, Kobe Bryant, O.J. Simpson, Larry King, Drew Barrymore, Dionne Warwick, Farrah Fawcett, Cindy Crawford, Elle Macpherson and Berry Gordy. <snip> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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