“They didn't go demand that we take everything down. It was basically, ‘Hey, you guys had a good run. Go ahead and stop,' " Murrieta police Lt. Jeremy Durrant tells PEOPLE Murrieta Police Department ...

A California police department is ending its practice of using Lego heads to hide suspect faces in social media photos—a headline-grabbing method of complying with state privacy laws—after Lego ...

The toy company Lego asked a Southern California police department to refrain from using the company's toy heads to hide the identities of suspects in photos shared on social media. The Murrieta ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Lego has contacted a Southern California ...

A California police department said it would no longer use Lego heads to obscure suspects’ faces in social media posts, after the Lego Group requested the department cease the practice, citing ...

Murrieta Police Department Lt. Jeremy Durrant told Fox News Digital in a statement that the Lego Group requested that it stop using Lego heads in their social media posts. "The Lego Group reached out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image provided by the Murrieta, Calif., police department shows an altered photo of a suspect used by the the Murrieta Police ...

Lego has come down on a California police department like a ton of bricks — albeit politely — asking it to stop adding digital toy heads on suspects’ faces, which it has been doing to comply with a ...

The maker of Lego toys has asked the Murrieta Police Department of Riverside County to stop using digitally added Lego heads to hide the identities of suspects in mug shots. The request comes after ...

A new law has one Southern California police department posting Lego heads instead of mugshots. In an Instagram post from Monday, the Murrieta Police Department said they started doing this because of ...

A Southern California police department has been handcuffed by Lego after the toy company asked the agency to stop adding Lego heads to cover the faces of suspects in images it shares on social media.