Lego tells California police department to stop using its minifigure heads [Video]

Lego has contacted a Southern California police department, telling them to stop using images of minifigure heads to protect suspects’ identities after news of the practice recently went viral.

“The Lego Group reached out to us and respectfully asked us to refrain from using their intellectual property in our social media content which of course we understand and will comply with,” Murrieta Police Department Lt. Jeremy Durrant told Fox News.

“We are currently exploring other methods to continue publishing our content in a way that is engaging and interesting to our followers,” Durant said.

The Police Department began using the images on its social media accounts after California law prohibited them from displaying booking photos of individuals arrested on suspicion of nonviolent crimes unless special circumstances existed.

“At the time of that passing the department had an internal discussion about posting the faces of arrestees in general,” the Department stated on a Nov. 2023, Facebook post.

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