Evanston Now
Police Chief Demitrous Cook.
Evanston aldermen Monday night approved spending $90,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by several men whose mugshots were inadvertently posted to Snapchat last year by Police Chief Demitrous Cook.
After the incident came to light, the Cook said he had been introduced to the app at a community meeting and thought it took excellent photos, so when he was reviewing some investigative files around 6 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 17, 2020, he snapped about 80 images from the files — thinking he was saving them only to his cell phone.
But instead, Cook says, they actually were posted publicly on the Snapchat app, where one or more people who knew of his account started distributing them more widely on social media.