California Courts of Appeal
Jun. 30, 2025
Panel nixes prosecution of senior LA deputy DA over sheriff's deputy records
An appeal court panel halted the prosecution of Los Angeles County Deputy DA Diana Teran for sharing public sheriff's deputy records she had obtained in a previous job, ruling it didn't violate the state's computer crime statute.
A California appeal court blocked the criminal prosecution of a Los Angeles County senior deputy district attorney and former public defender who has been on leave since Attorney General Rob Bonta charged her with unlawfully accessing and later sharing sheriff's deputies' personnel files.
The court of appeal granted a writ of prohibition by Deputy District Attorney Diana Teran, finding that her sharing of purely public court records, which had been stored as data on the Lo...
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