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FOIA Police Records

Accessing Information from ICE

Local reporters have complained that they have been unable to get basic information from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following ICE's recent raids targeting immigration fugitives in northern California. In reporting on raids in which scores of people are arrested and removed from their communities, reporters say that ICE declines to state: how […]

June 14, 2009
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Newsgathering

Accessing the black hole of the CIA

I am a reporter, and I have a question re: FOIA requests for CIA files. Specifically, I would like the employment records of a local mayor who says she was a CIA operative for 31 years. But I'm worried that if I frame the request the wrong way, it will be denied, because I […]

June 14, 2009
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Police are wrong: Cop-cam videos must be released as public records

[…] writing their reports, confidentiality would once again be waived. So far this year, 20 people have been shot by the LAPD, 16 of them fatally, according to newspaper accounts. And as protests and unrest in L.A. and other cities attest, people want to see the objective evidence — the videos — in controversial cases. The default position […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
October 6, 2016
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An Illicit Power-Grab And Usurpation Of State Sovereignty By The Bush Justice Department

[…] no doubt turning over in his grave. California, like the District of Columbia and every other state except Wyoming, has enacted a "Shield Law" to protect the news media's independence from government and to assure public access to information about wrongdoing in high places. (Memo to media: stay the hell out of Wyoming.) California's […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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UCLA Turns Over Video of Contentious Event with Treasury Secretary After Public Records Requests Flood in

[…] Mnuchin’s "revoked his consent" for it to be shared publicly, but the school eventually gave in after a flood of public requests from the First Amendment Coalition and other groups. The moderated discussion with Mnuchin, hosted by the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA, took place on Feb. 26. During the event, audience […]
March 12, 2018