Pomona : Bryant Won’t Be Prosecuted
The district attorney’s office has decided not to prosecute former Councilman C. L. (Clay) Bryant for disclosing at a City Council meeting a year ago that police Detective Raul Camargo, president of the Pomona Police Officers Assn., had been visiting a psychiatrist.
Deputy Dist. Atty. James R. Hickey informed Camargo’s attorney in a letter that Bryant, who was recalled from the council in June, did not violate a state law restricting the release of medical information by employers because a council member is technically not an employer.
In addition, he said, Bryant is not subject to prosecution under a city ordinance forbidding the release of confidential records because the warning given to Bryant that the records were confidential was not put in writing.
Meanwhile, a federal civil rights lawsuit, filed a year ago by Camargo and Pomona Police Sgt. Gary Elofson against Bryant and the city, is pending.
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