Update: LAPD Chief Says Credential Process Needs Reform After Journalists' Detentions - Los Angeles Sentinel
By City News Service echo park (file photo) After multiple journalists were detained by Los Angeles Police Department officers while covering the March 25 demonstrations at Echo Park Lake, Chief Michel Moore told police commissioners today that the department is working to reform its credentialing process. “We need a means of which to issue those credentials more expeditiously, including potentially on scene or announcing a site that will do credentialing for an upcoming announced event. Those are the processes that are being worked on now,” Moore said during Tuesday’s police co...