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  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    Despite New Laws, My Request for Police Body Camera Footage Has Been Repeatedly Denied

    In light of SB 1421 and AB 748, I submitted a request to the city and the police department for the body camera footage and internal affairs investigation report of an incident that happened at my home involving the discharge of a firearm at a person (me) by a peace officer and the use […]

    February 8, 2021

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment Newsgathering

    Press Credential renewal denied by CCAC

    I am a journalist that covers Capitol politics. This year, my request for Capitol press credentials from the Capitol Correspondents Association of California (CCAC) was denied. Their reasoning was this: one of my publishers also has a political consulting business – the CCAC board believes payments to him violate CCAC bylaws. I am in […]

    April 13, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    Accessing Police Reports

    […] Act, the public has a presumptive right of access to records maintained by government agencies, and may inspect or copy those records unless one of the Act's exemptions applies.  One of those exemptions, found at Government Code section 6254(f), relates to police reports.  In a case called Williams v. Superior Court, 5 Cal. 4th […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment Newsgathering Social Media

    Are there legal actions to protect community newspaper against harassment, threats?

    […] issue out the school staffs' mailboxes before teachers were able to read them. She is now telling folks to steal our newspaper. We are filing criminal charges for the theft. But, what are our rights? She slanders me and my boss saying we are tied to developers and that they hand us money. This […]

    June 11, 2014

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Can city business hide behind attorney/client privilege?

    […] no third persons other than those who are present to further the interest of the client in the consultation or those to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for the transmission of the information or the accomplishment of the purpose for which the lawyer is consulted . . . ." And I am not aware […]

    July 23, 2013

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    Government officials should listen to voters instead of lawyers selling strategies for blocking access to information

    […] into government's DNA. But some efforts to withhold information are more dangerous to democracy than others. The most dangerous are government lying (about the existence of documents, for example), particularly in circumstances where officials lie with impunity. Almost as dangerous, but less obviously so, are situations in which government agencies restructure the way they […]

    March 24, 2014

  • Cases

    First Amendment Coalition and Knock LA motion to unseal search warrant

    […] Unsealing of Warrant to Search Photojournalist and Black Lives Matters Protestors' Cell Phones (5/23/2023) Media Coalition Asks Court to Unseal Search Warrant Targeting Protesters Kept Under Seal for Two Years (9/19/2022) Blog: Unsealed: Newly released warrant reveals flimsy basis for L.A. sheriff targeting press, protesters (6/7/2023) Legal Documents: Court Order Granting Motion (11/10/2022) Petition […]

    August 10, 2022