Overview
- Officer Daniel Flores pleaded not guilty Monday to 16 felony counts that carry a possible sentence of up to 13 years for secretly recording colleagues in the LAPD Recruitment and Training Division in 2024.
- The Los Angeles County district attorney says Flores deceptively edited tapes and was motivated by avoiding a transfer and seeking a civil payout, allegations set out in a detailed court filing released publicly by D.A. Nathan Hochman.
- Flores and his lawyers say the recordings documented repeated racist, sexist and homophobic remarks, that he gave more than 120 tapes to LAPD Internal Affairs in January 2025, and that the D.A.’s public brief aims to discredit a whistleblower.
- The matter now runs on three tracks: the criminal case, an internal LAPD probe that previously recommended discipline, and Flores’s June hostile-workplace lawsuit against the city.
- California is an all-party consent state, which generally makes secret recordings illegal and is central to the case because experts say the law leaves open unsettled questions about whether on-duty officers may record workplace misconduct.