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Using children as informants

June 11, 2025 by Alexandra Natapoff

More civil cases in which families have sued police for harm to their children who were working as informants. The cases are collected in this blog post from Professor Jeff Welty, Professor of Public Law & Government at the University of North Carolina; the post also includes several North Carolina police department policies on using children as informants. For more on the topic, see these previous posts.

Filed Under: Families & Youth, Police, Threats to Informants

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