The settlement comes over a decade after the first concerns were raised publicly about the sheriff’s department’s confidential informant program, which investigators found broke multiple laws.
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Those improvements, federal officials said, include a policy suspending the use of informants in criminal cases unless directly authorized by District Attorney Todd Spitzer. “Under the Sixth ...