Jul. 30, 2025
OCSD successfully completes federal agreement over jailhouse informants
The agreement, signed in January, followed DOJ findings that from 2007 to 2016, OCSD and the Orange County District Attorney's Office used informants to illegally elicit statements from defendants.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced it had successfully completed its reform agreement with the Orange County Sheriff's Department to end the unconstitutional use of jailhouse informants.
The agreement, signed in January, followed DOJ findings that from 2007 to 2016, OCSD and the Orange County District Attorney's Office used informants to illegally elicit statements from defendants represented by counsel and routinely withheld exculpatory evidence. These practices vio...
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