By Lawrence Mower – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Multiple local and federal police investigations have been compromised after a spokesman for West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio posted secret details about the operations on the city’s website for three days last week.
The information is some of the most sensitive in a police department’s possession: the targets of drug stings, the identities of detectives’ confidential informants and of undercover officers. Revealing these identities can put lives in danger.
Now police are scrambling to repair the damage, and city officials are meeting today to figure out what happened. [Read More]