"Bring it on," said Gary Ingemunson, one of [Kelly Chrisman]'s attorneys, adding that Chrisman looks forward to proving his innocence. The LAPD's administrative proceeding against Chrisman is flawed, he said, and, in exploring criminal charges, authorities are "desperately looking for another way out."

[Richard Doyle] said the harder look into Chrisman had been prompted by Times articles, which reported that a former employee of the National Enquirer had said Chrisman was the tabloid's paid "go-to guy" for celebrity information in police files, and that dates when Chrisman ran celebrity names through LAPD computers in some cases correlated closely with events such as arrests or deaths.

During the administrative hearings into Chrisman's activities, the LAPD has said Chrisman improperly used department computers to access data on celebrities and sometimes his co-workers and girlfriends. Under department regulations as well as state and federal law, an officer must have an authorized law enforcement purpose for such searches.