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LAPD chief says inspector general’s office will investigate release of photos of undercover officers to watchdog website

Hamid Khan, seen here at a February news conference to oppose the reappointment of LAPD police Chief Michel Moore, is an organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, which has launched a searchable online database of LAPD officers, Watch the Watchers.

LOS ANGELES — The Office of the Inspector General will investigate LAPD Chief Michel Moore and the department’s constitutional policing director over the disclosure of photos of thousands of officers, including those who work undercover.

At Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Police Commission, Moore said he had issued “deep apologies” for the way many officers first learned of the photos, which were released in response to a California Public

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