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Court’s Police Body Camera Opinion Highlights E-Discovery Issues

The California Supreme Court recently issued an opinion that analyzes the public disclosure of police body camera footage and demonstrates the overlap between e-Discovery processes and other records production schemes. The...more

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California Attorney General’s Office Clarifies its Information Bulletin Regarding Public Access to Police Records - Information...

Senate Bill 1421 affords the public access to police personnel records related to reports, investigations and findings, via the California Public Records Act process (not the familiar Pitchess process)....more

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BB&K Attorney Gary Schons Conducting Review of Police Use of Communication App - TigerText, Used in Long Beach, Automatically...

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The City of Long Beach has hired Best Best & Krieger LLP Of Counsel Gary Schons to conduct an independent investigation into the Long Beach Police Department’s use of a controversial communications app. TigerText, which...more

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AB 748: More Public Access To Body Camera Footage Under PRA - Amendment To California Law Gives Public Agencies More...

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The California public will have a greater right to access police body camera footage, and any other audio or video recording acquired by any police agency or state prosecution office, under the Public Records Act with the...more

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European Court of Justice Delivers Victory for EU Transparency and Accountability

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Landmark ruling requires the European Commission to disclose impact assessments used as a basis for its legislative decision-making process. The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union recently issued a...more

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Police Arrest Videos Not Considered Confidential

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The California Supreme Court recently denied considering an appellate court ruling from a case in Eureka that police arrest videos cannot be considered confidential officer personnel records and therefore kept from public...more

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Sunshine Creeps into Dark Corners of Harrisburg

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National Sunshine Week did not exist in the 1700s, but the Founding Fathers knew all too well the frustrations of accessing public records and even wrote about it right here in Philadelphia. Originally published in The...more

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Court Rules Private Fund Data Is Not A Public Record

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Private equity and venture capital funds like public pension fund money but they don’t necessarily like the consequences of having the government as an investor. As noted in this post, this was illustrated by Superior Court...more

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