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Litigation

Feb. 20, 2009

Briefly: Video Case Settles

The city of Ontario has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit brought by its police officers who claimed their privacy was violated by a secretly placed videotape camera in their locker room.

The city of Ontario has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit brought by its police officers who claimed their privacy was violated by a secretly placed videotape camera in their locker room.

The lawsuit, filed in 2004, was settled Tuesday just before it was scheduled to go to trial in a federal court in Riverside, the parties said. According to the suit, an Ontario detective placed the camera in 1996 an attempt to catch a flashlight thief. The camera, whi...

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