City To Pay Woodland Hills Teen Filmed Nude By LAPD Officer

LOS ANGELES, CA — An attorney for a woman who successfully sued the city of Los Angeles and a former police officer she said filmed her while she was nude declined to comment on the case Thursday, citing a confidentiality agreement.

The woman, who was a minor at the time of the incident, will receive a $400,000 settlement after the City Council approved the payment on Wednesday.

Julianne Glass sued after she said former Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant Kosal Uch unlawfully detained her and a friend in Woodland Hills, and took nude video of her.

A spokesman for City Attorney Mike Feuer declined to comment on the case, as did Jonathan Evans with The Cochran Firm, who represented Glass.

Due to the confidentiality agreement it is unknown if the LAPD or city admitted any wrongdoing. Uch has since been fired over the incident.

According to the lawsuit, Glass and her friend were in the backseat of a car on March 3, 2015, and had just finished having consensual sex near Corbin Canyon Park when Uch opened the door, pointed his cell phone at Glass -- who was naked except for a bra -- and began video recording her.

Uch, who worked for the LAPD's Topanga Division, then asked her to state her name and age, the lawsuit alleges, and told her she would be arrested for having sex in public. Despite asking for privacy to get dressed, Uch continued to film Glass while she put on her underwear, the lawsuit said.

Glass claimed in the lawsuit that while Uch was wearing an LAPD uniform and had a gun, he did not have a badge visible and there was no squad car around.

Uch then ordered Glass and her friend to pick up trash in the area, and Uch took more photos of them, the lawsuit said, before he released them without issuing any ticket or citation, telling them they would be notified by mail in two weeks.

The lawsuit's complaints include an unreasonable search and seizure, an unreasonable intrusion into privacy, invasion of privacy, false arrest and imprisonment, negligence on the part of the defendant and the city, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Uch also sued Glass in February 2016 on allegations of defamation, slander and both intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, but the case was dismissed.

City News Service