Published in Westside Current, July 25, 2024. Read full article here.

A Los Angeles County assistant district attorney who was in charge of ethics and integrity operations for the office pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony charges for alleged repeated and unauthorized use of data from confidential peace officer files.

Diana Teran was charged April 24 by the California Department of Justice with 11 felony counts prohibiting the use of data from a government computer system without permission, according to a statement released by the state Attorney General’s Office.

Teran allegedly accessed computer data, including numerous confidential peace officer files, in 2018 while working as a constitutional policing adviser at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and impermissibly used that data at the District Attorney’s Office after going to work there in January 2021, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

“No one is above the law,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in the statement. “Public officials are called to serve the people and the state of California with integrity and honesty.”

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