Friday, February 3, 2017

Police Chief Pleads Not Guilty to Eavesdropping

CA - David Paul Edmiston, an acting Kern High School District police chief accused of surreptitiously recording his officers, pled not guilty in Kern County Superior Court Wednesday to four counts of misdemeanor eavesdropping.

Edmiston was named acting police chief in August, after Chief Joseph Lopeteguy, who alleged high-level school district administrators were illegally using a sensitive police database, went on medical stress leave. more