The Los Angeles County Superior Court quietly disclosed that nearly half a million criminal cases dating back to 1965 were never properly reported to the state due to a “technical error.”
According to an FAQ page on California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s state website, the LACSC “recently identified a backlog of roughly” 464,005 criminal cases that went unreported between 1965 and 2023. As a result, individuals arrested in Los Angeles County “may not have their dismissals or convictions currently reflected in their criminal records in the statewide repository.”
In a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation, the LACSC explained that modernization of the Court’s Trial Court Information System (TCIS) began in 2016 to replace the legacy system originally installed in the 1980s. The upgrade aimed to introduce a “new platform that would deliver significant efficiencies and features to court operations.”…