(GunReports.com) — Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Green granted a motion in the National Rifle Association and California Rifle and Pistol Association-financed case against the City of Los Angeles, forcing LAPD to disclose what it takes to get a concealed carry weapon permit in the City of Los Angeles on June 9.
Under Penal Code § 12050, the LAPD has an obligation to process applications for CCW permits, and to issue CCWs if the applicant has “good cause.”
For many years, the City and the LAPD had a policy of not making CCW applications available, never finding good cause to exist, and effectively prohibiting the issuance of any CCWs.
The City’s unlawful refusal to properly process CCW applications and issue CCWs was challenged in two lawsuits in 1992 and 1994.
To settle the suits the LAPD agreed to be bound by a judgment requiring that all citizens who request a CCW permit application could get one at any LAPD station house, that the application would be accompanied by a written copy of the LAPD’s procedure for handling the application, including the factors used to determine whether an applicant has ”good cause” for the CCW, and that applicants would be informed of the procedures for appealing the denial of a CCW application.
The LAPD had repeatedly failed to honor its legal obligations under the judgment. The LAPD stopped making CCW applications and a written copy of the CCW policy and appeal process available at all station houses.
