A now-retired Pittsburgh police commander has been charged with the usage of police-issued body-worn cameras to illegally document different cops remaining 12 months, government mentioned.
Allegheny County police mentioned they have been requested in October to research after a body-worn digicam used to be discovered hidden in an unmarked Pittsburgh police car. Investigators later decided that a couple of Zone 2 officials “have been recorded with out their wisdom on cameras that have been positioned inside of unmarked police automobiles,” county police mentioned Friday in a Fb publish.
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Former Zone 2 Commander Matthew Lackner, 50, used to be charged Friday with 4 third-degree prison counts of interception, disclosure or use of twine, digital or oral communications. Lackner has retired from the pressure for the reason that investigation started, officers mentioned.
The downtown Pittsburgh skyline at night time as photographed from the Riverwalk in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 26, 2016. (Picture By way of Raymond Boyd/Getty Pictures)
Investigators allege that Lackner used no less than 11 police-issued body-worn cameras to document officials a couple of instances between Sept. 27 and Oct. 4, shooting about 75 hours of recordings, in line with a prison grievance.
In step with the grievance, Lackner informed officials he’d recorded that it used to be a part of a federal investigation of an unnamed particular person and ordered them to not discuss of it once more, however county police mentioned federal government had showed that no such probe approved such a process. Government have not equipped any other cause of Lackher’s alleged movements.
Requested Friday about Lackner, Pittsburgh police Leader Larry Scirotto mentioned “someone that betrays the accept as true with of our group is handled straight away,” the Tribune-Evaluation reported.
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Court docket paperwork don’t checklist an lawyer representing Lackner; a host indexed in his identify rang unanswered Monday after which disconnected. Robert Swartzwelder, president of police union Fraternal Order of Police Hotel No. 1, declined remark, the Tribune-Evaluation mentioned.
