Welcome to Arrest Stories. A San Bernardino City Councilmember faces charges for allegedly recording police personnel without consent in connection with her two million dollar lawsuit against the city. Here's what may have happened.
On January twenty-first, twenty twenty-five, the San Bernardino County District Attorney charged thirty-two-year-old Treasure Ortiz with violating California's two-party recording consent law. Ortiz was arrested in the nine hundred block of California Street in Calimesa and is being held without bail.
According to the charges, Ortiz intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication, used an electronic amplifying and recording device to eavesdrop and record communications with San Bernardino Police Department personnel. The District Attorney's office stated that it is alleged Councilmember Treasure Ortiz intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication, used an electronic amplifying and recording device, to eavesdrop and record communications with San Bernardino Police Department personnel.
The recording was made in connection with a two million dollar lawsuit Ortiz filed against the city in November. California's two-party recording consent law requires that under most circumstances both parties be aware that a private conversation is being recorded.
Ortiz's lawsuit alleges a former San Bernardino police officer looked her up in the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System database seeking information to discredit her ahead of her City Council run. On October twenty-fifth, twenty twenty-three, a survey was sent to Seventh Ward residents asking if they would vote for Plaintiff knowing she has been arrested for domestic violence and was terminated from employment. Both claims were false according to court documents.
The San Bernardino City Council denied Ortiz's claim in May twenty twenty-four. In August twenty twenty-four, Treasure Ortiz alleged that Chief Goodman attempted to blackmail her. City Attorney Albert Maldonado read a statement at the city council meeting on January twenty-first calling the lawsuit frivolous, filed in bad faith, dishonest and an attempt to swindle the city of San Bernardino out of two million dollars.
Ortiz is scheduled to be arraigned on February nineteenth, twenty twenty-five.
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