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In taping a reporter, AG Brown’s spokesman showed bad judgment, but did he break the law?
[…] readers pointed out in emails to me, I overstated my case in saying that the surreptitious taping of an on-the-record phone conversation between a reporter and a news source is "rarely, if ever illegal." In 2002, in a case that did not involve a journalist, the California Supreme Court, interpreting section 632, held that […]
November 4, 2009