{"id":89800,"date":"2025-07-24T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89800\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T22:50:10","slug":"former-la-plata-county-jail-commander-charged-with-unlawfully-viewing-strip-search-videos-of-female-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89800\/","title":{"rendered":"Former La Plata County jail commander charged with unlawfully viewing strip-search videos of female inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Bureau of Investigation charged Edward Aber with 117 counts of invasion of privacy for sexual gratification on Wednesday, accusing the 62-year-old of accessing more than a hundred different female inmates\u2019 strip search videos between February 2019 and January 2024. He is alleged to have viewed the footage multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>The former La Plata County Jail Commander is also facing one count of first-degree official misconduct. All of the charges are Class 1 misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p>Aber spent 19 years working at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpcgov.org\/sheriff.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>. CBI said he was promoted to jail commander in 2018 and was granted access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axon.com\/products\/axon-evidence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evidence.com<\/a>, a cloud-based evidence management system developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axon<\/a>. The company is also responsible for developing law enforcement body-worn cameras. <\/p>\n<p>In July 2024, the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office placed Aber on administrative leave following allegations of unlawful sexual contact with female inmates and sexual harassment of numerous female employees.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/articles\/widespread-sexual-harassment-found-after-resignation-of-la-plata-county-jail-commander\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Durango Herald<\/a>, he called La Plata County Sheriff Sean Smith and resigned on the day the investigation was announced.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County Undersheriff Frank Sandoval said Aber had not resigned; he would\u2019ve been terminated. No charges have been filed so far in regards to the alleged sexual contact with inmates. CBI opened its investigation into Aber in January of this year. <\/p>\n<p>Aber is still listed as <a href=\"https:\/\/post.coag.gov\/s\/peace-officer\/a1Nt0000009WWOIEA4\/co115995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">certified and not currently employed in the Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) database<\/a>, which tracks certification status, employment, complaints and investigations of law enforcement officers in the state. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s scheduled to appear in La Plata County Court on Aug.12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Bureau of Investigation charged Edward Aber with 117 counts of invasion of privacy for sexual gratification&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,59869,4219,5333,2961,59870,2936,224,5337,2938],"class_list":{"0":"post-89800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-colorado-bureau-of-investigation","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-jail","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-plata-county","15":"tag-law-enforcement","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-prisons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114910660217023059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}