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A Los Angeles police commander accused of fraud and unlawful computer data access will remain a defendant in a lawsuit filed by the union representing LAPD lieutenants and lower ranks.

In the Los Angeles Superior Court suit originally filed Aug. 7 and amended Aug. 19, the Los Angeles Police Protective League alleges Cmdr. Lillian Carranza used bogus online credentials to access confidential emails, communications and surveys distributed by the union to its members.

The suit initially alleged causes of action for fraud, unfair competition and a violation of the state Penal Code. The revised complaint added additional allegations, including conspiracy as well as one more count each of fraud, unfair competition and violation of the Penal Code. In addition, Deputy Chief Marc Reina was added as a co-defendant with Carranza.

On Tuesday, Judge Bruce Iwasaki denied motions by Carranza and Reina seeking dismissal of all allegations against them under the state’s anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) law, which aims to prevent the use of the courts, and potential threats of a lawsuit, to intimidate those who are exercising their First Amendment rights.

Carranza maintained that her actions involved her right of free speech connected to her ensuring the quality of performance of LAPD captains, which she said is an issue of public importance. The judge disagreed.

“Here … the wrong complained of in using the false credentials was the unauthorized access,” the judge wrote. “Thus, to the extent that the claims rely on this category of allegations, the causes of action do not arise from protected activities.”

Even assuming that falsifying credentials and responding to the survey constituted speech, there is no public interest related to this speech, the judge further said.

In a sworn declaration, Carranza explained why she continued to access the LAPPL website after she was promoted to captain in 2012.

“While I understood that LAPPL’s bargaining unit would no longer represent me based on my status as a captain, I continued to have access to the LAPPL website and received correspondence, emails from LAPPL and accessed its website to monitor my benefits via the members’ portal,” Carranza says. “Upon becoming a captain, I still had my dental insurance, long term disability insurance and life insurance through LAPPL.”

According to the union’s suit, Carranza, Reina and an unknown number of “Does” entered into an agreement to “illegally, fraudulently and unlawfully access LAPPL communications and surveys utilized during the collective bargaining process by utilizing false credentials and intentional misrepresentations of rank.”

Beginning in at least 2016, Reina falsified his credentials and/or identity in order to obtain confidential emails, communications and surveys the LAPPL sent to its members through its online electronic portal used to communicate with authorized members, the amended suit states.

In January 2023, Reina completed a survey intended for use by LAPPL members only and as part of his submission for the review, Reina “falsely and intentionally stated that his rank was lieutenant, a rank he had not held for more than 10 years,” the suit alleges.

The union alleges that Carranza — who leads the LAPD’s Central Bureau — also successfully accessed and completed a survey that was intended for union members, while falsely claiming she was a lieutenant.

“Between 2016 and 2024, Carranza opened approximately 49 of the 141 confidential emails sent by the LAPPL to its members, emails that Carranza knew she was not authorized to receive or view, and knew that but for her falsification of credentials and identity, she would not have received,” according to lawsuit.

The union uses three online platforms to administer surveys. The union does not represent the LAPD’s high-ranking officers.

According to the union, in January 2023, Carranza successfully completed an online form titled “LAPPL MOU Survey 2023.” The survey was intended as a means for the LAPPL to collect feedback from its members regarding labor contracts with the city, union officials contend.

Carranza completed the survey, stating her rank was lieutenant, a rank she had not held for more than 10 years, according to the lawsuit.

The suit further alleges that in July, Carranza tried to access and complete another online form titled “2024 LAPPL Captain Assessment and Organizational Morale Survey.” According to the union, that survey was designed to capture union members’ concerns and anonymous evaluations or assessments of captains in the department.

According to the LAPPL, the union relies on the surveys to develop accurate information from its members that is then used in collective bargaining and assists in the representation of its members.

But Carranza says that in taking a 2016 survey, she encountered a drop-down menu that did not include her then-rank of captain.

“Therefore, I simply entered the highest rank that was available on the drop-down menu and proceeded with the survey,” Carranza says. “If the LAPPL had not wanted me to take the survey, it had only to block my access.”

Carranza says the police union invited her to take this year’s survey.

“I believed that it was important for me to complete the survey as a means of assisting in assuring the quality and integrity of the LAPD,” according to Carranza.

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  1. But my whole family 36 of them that Got murder including my ex-wife whole family 36 family members died and desert hot springs in 2020 my wife got shot in the left side of the head and the bullet went through her fucking brain and came out of right eyeball that was in October of 2020 right there at Indian canyon and I-10 freeway nobody did anything at that circle k parking lot but hell here we are later down the road and I have more info on more murders in this County but you see any cops running around and asking me for a fucking number and name because they have no interest in it they make $170,000 a year and $215 a fucking hour
    And they did was Hide all the bodies in the train derailment on the Hwy 25 in December of 2020 that was in between the Palm Springs and the Blythe on the 25 it was a train derailment that had all the dead bodies in it Lady Gaga everybody Robert Downey Jr Matthew j Fox all the people. And every derailment around the world. But you’ll never stop the law enforcement or the FBI from doing any more damage to the world because you’ll never listen to me at all .
    Training week never ends right I just can’t understand how training work can never end but yet you’ve never licensed or commissioned any officer in the state of California in the last 65 years and why is that because most of them are incompetent or that you just want to disgrace the fucking Nation like you have for $215 an hour 50 grand every shift and you work two shifts a week for $100,000 a week that’s $450,000 a month how I make 30 cents a fucking day at $680 a month but I got to put up with your stupidity because you can’t get a license or commission and training work never ends right.
    I tell you from all the way out here in Crestline all the shit that you’ve done how I told you for five and a half years over there in Cathedral City and y’all never got off your ass to do anything about the police reports that I kept falling with Cathedral City they’d go in unanswered an unresponded to and undealt with for five and a half years now I got a UPS center got caught stealing my fucking mail but yet I got to be trespassed for the property because hell Cathedral City PD can’t figure out what Public Accessible Land Laws are! They’re off Federal magistrated love that state that no law enforcement was a badge from the city county state or federal government of the State of California has any right to be on public accessible land that has public accessibility now these are under federal laws but yet you violate them by federally breaking an enduring fedually trespassing federally destruction of private property and you sit there with the windows rolled up like you’re a fucking dumbass thick in the world man with your black ass hair like how much did you fuck over your country just to get the job here at 19 fucking years old with a driver’s permit in your pocket what did you fuck over to get this $215 an hour job now you probably still live home with Mama I mean what fucking point do we get any fucking law enforcement in this world that can get an education and be the law enforcement that we truly need on the street

    You say that Diddy has an accomplice!
    Anyone would want to understand with that many bottles of baby oil with DMT in it is an accomplice.! Then you have to understand what the DMT and all the hypnosis that was being played on the music box inside of his house for all the FBI agents to come in there with no rubber gloves on pick up all the rubber dildos and play with them for hours on hours with DMT all over the dildos and baby oil take them back to the lab and everything and try to figure out what they’re going to do and the brainwashing from the hypnosis that they were listening to inside the house told him to go out there and get Nathan Hochman ( LA’s district DA ! ) and everybody else in Los Angeles that was involved in the George Garson trial so that he could become the representation for India. But how the judge lost your head from Nathan Hochman chopping it off out there but yet nobody’s going to pay attention to the TV ads about how elect Nathan Hochman for deputy da right for Los Angeles County huh where you going to find his body man when you going to bring it up there. And then you got a nude oversized fat Donald Trump sitting out there in the old tall with nothing on how that’s planning obvious that they already shot him down there at Del Mar in largo, Florida. Now all they do is put a coffin around this fat ass and this is what happens to politics that fuck over the company. But how Puff Daddy’s biggest fucking problem is and this is the only problem his hatred for another man to get to something before his tired ass drug dealing junky ass had to get to it he’s also the one that Shoved the crack pipe down her throat and caused her death but how you’re going to stand up for the crack dealer right and you wonder why all the celebrities are dead because you had the crack dealer running house to house to get all the secrets right because he had to sell his dope man but any Gangster would never let nobody see it on TV man you got to keep that shit secret you can’t spread this shit around man every brother knew it was a dope being junkie man selling his dope but y’all bought his shit and he slaughtered every one of your children! How didn’t share and Lady Gaga live in the same building with Justin Bieber and everybody else where has everybody went to that used to live in that building and why have they been missing for 10 years now. Because with a bottle of DMT,  Some hypnosis music, you’ll be brainwashed to do absolutely fucking nothing for the rest of your life.

    1. Drug Dealer Task Force!
      Hate, Greed, Corruption, Lust, Death, Lies, Discrimination!
      100% Government Mutiny!
      1000% Cyberfraud & Treason!
      You do have to understand that this is for every Department across the United States of America.
      Whether that be the police department the Sheriff’s Department fire department or the ambulance services of the State of California as well As The United States of America!!!!
      10.4 trillion dollars Each department of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Times 109 Cities =
      $1,133,600,000,000.00
      1100 E-Trillion Dollars A Year!
      Then the captain of the Police Department pulls in $507,000.00 Times 109 Cities = $55,232,000.00
      And this has been going on since 1995 now you can see why the world is so fucking broke.

      https://www.facebook.com/BoredPandaArt/videos/588708423611680/?mibextid=CDWPTG

      But to find one of the uneducated law enforcement in the United States of America with a non-commissioned license that’s not broke it’s very rare because each and every one of them was 50 million dollars in the Bank, Broken and looking for the next paycheck.
      Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that a violation has occurred, the Attorney General, for or in the name of the United States, may in a civil action obtain appropriate equitable and declaratory relief to eliminate the pattern or practice.
      Types of misconduct covered include, among other things: Excessive Force, Discriminatory Harassment, False Arrest, Coercive Sexual Conduct, Unlawful Stops, Searches, or Arrests. And only if he feels that there’s a violation.   “IF”  is the Word.
      Now you can understand why them cocaine head are sitting in the captain chair,  Snorting 60 million worth of cocaine. How is probably the first time he’s had any kind of money in his pocket since he came across the border.
      Hell I was told that’s the only place that will not educate a human being across the border.
      What they didn’t find in the train derailment on the 25 and 2020 out there in between Palm Springs and Blythe they all died in the boat explosion in Cancun Sea. 2020
      And here’s another family member.
      Firefighters also located one victim of the blaze, an elderly man, inside the home. Neighbors identified him as Will Rothschild, hailing from the wealthy Rothschild family. Law enforcement is yet to confirm his identity, reported ABC7 News.
      Time 55 LAPD Locations & 54 Los Angeles Sheriff Department’s Times 109 Cities in the County!
      10.424 Trillion Dollars A Year Times 109 Department’s
      Equals out to. 1133 Trillion Dollars A Year just for Law Enforcement in Los Angeles County! 1133 times 5,000 Counties in the United States of America for a total for an idiot is $5.665E14

      We don’t have the ability to make $21 an hour .
      I make 30 cents a day.
      They make $300.00 Hour
      Who the Drug Dealers????
      E- Trillions Yearly. Since 1995
      Bone Island of Skid Row!
      Catalina Island, CA.
      Always a new guest with every boat Full

      And now Cher’s  Whole Family has been confirmed!
      Dead by Boat Sanking in Cancun in 2020
      As Well as Every Celebrity in the World Are Dead.
      They Said that Cher was Eaten in Half in Acapulco 2020 with Rest of the Family were All Eaten in Half because somebody Sliced them Before Entering Sea Of Cancun!

      At some point you have to understand you’ve been brainwashed for this this long up to this point because of the fact that the world has to destroy the nation long before it can do anything in the world because this used to be the United States of America the land of the brave and the home of the free. And 1855, the British sacked the White House and burnt it to the fucking ground and America was lost at that point because it became the Land of the Dead in the home of the corruption. Where I feel that we can all learn from my mistakes to set the better path forward as the global Federation of many nations of many galaxies. Where we learn from our past mistakes so we don’t have to get burnt for them

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