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Jonathan Fairtlough, Assistant Head Deputy
High Technology Crime Division
Jonathan Fairtlough is a founding member of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s High Technology Crime Division and had been assigned to its predecessors, the High Tech Crime Unit and the High Tech Analysis & Litigation Team, since 2000. He has prosecuted more than 100 civil and criminal defendants for crimes involving computer intrusion, theft of intellectual property, fraud and identity theft.
As a deputy district attorney, he has litigated several cases of note including a massive software piracy case with $100 million in losses to companies, a 42-count identity theft complaint featured on the television show “America’s Most Wanted” and a data breach case that involved nearly 200,000 victims. For the last case, Fairtlough received the 2006 Prosecutor of the Year Award from the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators.
A speaker for numerous conferences and training programs, Fairtlough has taught prosecutors from all over California as well as representatives from the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He has served as a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Intellectual Property Protection Working Group and the National District Attorneys Association Working Group for Financial Industry Fraud. He is a current member of the Southern California High Tech Crime Task Force and the Los Angeles Electronic Crimes Task Force. Fairtlough is also an advisory committee member for the National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Identity Crimes of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Fairtlough is the legal instructor for prosecutor training at the National Computer Forensics Institute. He formerly served as the legislative liaison for the California District Attorneys Association High Tech Crime Advisory Committee.
Fairtlough holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola Marymount University and a J.D. from Loyola Law School.
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