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Usually when I have dealt with these sorts of requests, the way we verified they are legit law enforcement was by asking what department they work for, and then
by jedberg 3y ago
Usually when I have dealt with these sorts of requests, the way we verified they are legit law enforcement was by asking what department they work for, and then independently finding the number of that agency and verifying their badge number. It added time to the process but we wanted to protect our users as much as possible.
- belltaco 3y agoSo anyone with a name and badge number of an officer could impersonate one?
- jedberg 3y agoOnly if they could also control the phone number we would find for that law enforcement agency. We would call them back through the number we found independently by calling the switchboard and asking for that officer/badge number.