Police Accused of Screening Dates Using Law Enforcement Database

Local Police Officers in California used office time and equipment to search for women on Internet dating sites, aided by government intelligence, according to court documents.

Officers Stephen Ruiz and Jacob Glashoff used the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System – a statewide police database – to vet the women they liked.

Another Fairfield officer reported the incidents to his superior in June.

The pair was browsing women on dating websites like Tinder, eHarmony, and Match.com while working at the investigations bureau office of the Fairfield Police Department.

“The officers then used a police-issued computer to look up the women they found appealing in a confidential law enforcement database that connects to the DMV and state and federal records,” CBS reports.

The two would perform the queries and have conversations about the dating sites in front of their peers.