Unaware He Broke Rules, Assistant Chief Says
Assistant Los Angeles Police Chief Robert Vernon testified in a lawsuit Tuesday that he was unaware that his use of a Police Department computer to obtain information about a political activist during a 1989 Pasadena city election violated LAPD guidelines.
Vernon told a Superior Court jury that he retrieved only newspaper and wire service articles on political activist Michael Zinzun from a private computer service subscribed to by the department’s Anti-Terrorist Division.
Zinzun’s attorney said the action gave the impression that Zinzun had a file in the Anti-Terrorist Division.
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