The Murrieta Police Department stated that it started putting Lego heads on suspect’s faces to comply with a new California law.
A police department in California that started obscuring its suspects’ faces with Lego heads will cease the practice after the toy company reportedly reached out and told it to please stop. The Murrieta Police Department in California has been hiding the faces of its arrested suspects for years, often in a variety of ways.
Some may be asking: How did the police department get into the habit of pasting Lego heads—and hiding the person’s face in general—onto pictures of suspects? In a Facebook post last November, the police department said it decided to adopt the practice after the California Legislature passed AB 1475 in 2021, which banned police departments in the state from posting booking photos of suspects for non-violent crimes except under specific circumstances.
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