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Q: I am writing to see if there is any California case law on the release of dash cam videos and whether they are public record. I’ve been covering the case of a police officer accused of committing assault on a juvenile under the color of authority . The officer’s defense was that he was singled out for arrest and prosecution because he was unpopular in a dysfunctional police department and that his fellow officers willfully

Q: Last month our recently elected academic senate president announced to us, the Senate Executive Committee, privately, on campus, that he would be moving to New York and would not be teaching anymore at our college. He said we would have a meeting about his leaving as soon as he learned about what sick time he had left, etc. He didn’t know when it was he would be resigning. Over the course of the following

Have a question? Our Legal Hotline is free. Q:  I live in Tennessee, and my town recently adopted a social media policy that forbids any city employee, elected official, appointed official, vendor or volunteer from posting anything “negative” about the city on social media. Can you please take a look at this and determine if this is a violation of the First Amendment?  A: The First Amendment, with some exceptions, generally prevents the government from limiting citizens’