The general counsel of the Los Angeles Times wrote a letter of protest after the L.A. County Sheriff launched a criminal leak probe into a reporter who exposed a jail coverup.
Numerous courts have ruled that California law enforcement agencies across the state must comply with the 2019 police disclosure law one of the last holdouts was also asked to comply on Wednesday.
(CN) The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office will have to get with the times as an appellate court panel on Wednesday said they are not exempt from a 2019 California law that makes police misconduct records available to the public.
A union representing Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies argued that California’s Senate Bill 1421 should not apply to records generated before the law went into effect Jan. 1, 2019. The union argued any records on police misconduct, use of deadly force and other disciplinary files before that date were off limits because state lawmakers did not specify if the law would apply retroactively.
A legal action was filed Tuesday requesting that a federal court unseal records related to the seizure of U.S. Sen. Richard Burrâs cellphone by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The action was filed by Los Angeles Times Communications LLC in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The filing had not appeared in the federal court filing website www.pacer.gov as of Tuesday night.
A tweet posted Tuesday contains the first four pages of the filing, including a synopsis of the request and the first graphs describing the background of the action.
The L.A. Times was the first to report on May 13 that FBI agents came to Burrâs home in the Washington area with a search warrant for the cellphone. The newspaper cited an anonymous law-enforcement source.