A veteran prosecutor for the City Attorney’s Office is suing Los Angeles, alleging his career “has now gone backward” for complaining that the office’s criminal branch was non-compliant with state and federal requirements regarding the safekeeping of digital evidence.
Deputy City Attorney David Bozanich’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges whistleblower retaliation. He seeks unspecified damages. A representative of the City Attorney’s Office did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the suit brought Thursday.
Bozanich was hired in 2002 and has been assigned to the criminal branch ever since. The suit states that his career was on an upward track for 21 years, adding that he worked as a prosecuting attorney and later was instrumental in the establishment of a new unit in 2017 that established policies and practices for employees accessing, maintaining and using technology, including police body-worn camera evidence.
But starting in May 2021 and continuing into the next year, Bozanich frequently disclosed to his supervisors verbally and by email that the criminal branch was out of compliance with state and federal requirements pertaining to the storage of digital criminal offender record information, the suit alleges.
Bozanich believed the alleged...
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