Bay Area detective disciplined in photo scandal

The Palo Alto police detective is the 2nd law official in recent months accused of forwarding an explicit photo from a detainee's phone.|
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS

PALO ALTO — A Northern California police detective has been disciplined for forwarding an explicit photo of a woman removed from her cell phone while she was under arrest.

The San Jose Mercury News reported on Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1CoXmtf ) that this marks the second such case in recent months. In October, a California Highway Patrol officer working in Dublin was criminally charged for taking nude and explicit photos from the phones belonging to two women arrested in drunken driving cases.

The newspaper says an audit reveals a police detective in Palo Alto also obtained a photo of a scantily clad woman during a burglary investigation.

The audit says the unnamed detective wasn't charged; he was disciplined and remains on the job.

Palo Alto Police Lt. Zachary Perron declined to comment on the internal investigation.

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