The Orange County DA's office announced that a former Fullerton Police Department school resource officer has been charged with secretly photographing and videotaping up the skirt of a 16-year-old high school student.
Officer Jose Anthony Paez was investigated internally by the Fullerton Police Department over five years looking at the officer's on-duty interaction with the public.
He stopped working for the police department earlier this year.
“As the elected District Attorney, I am charged with judging the conduct of police officers,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer in a press release. “Law enforcement officers are entrusted with a tremendous amount of authority and trust. The actions this officer engaged in betrayed that trust and preyed on the very people he was charged with protecting.”
Paez faces a maximum of one year in the Orange County Jail if convicted.