Comments on: California AG: it’s illegal to possess secret list of convicted cops

By: VMS

VMS — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:05:50 +0000

I thought that The Pentagon Papers Case (New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971) put an end to the government trying to bar a newspaper from publishing classified material that was illegally leaked. The California AG has no chance of barring a newspaper from publishing legally obtained information.

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 01:52:48 +0000

Is it not the case that criminal convictions are, except for juveniles, a matter of public record? A news organization that was willing to spend the money could send a reporter to every trial and construct a database of the outcomes. It could probably do the same thing more efficiently by periodically consulting the records of each criminal court. This means that for any police officer it is possible in theory to obtain the record of convictions using only public information. How could the possession of such a list be illegal?

By: SPO

SPO — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:44:39 +0000

The thuggery here is amazing.

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:31:32 +0000

According to the article:

““Once you disclose a document that’s confidential and private, you can’t take it back,” Becerra told reporters earlier this month. ”You don’t get a second chance to get it right, you got to get it right the first time.””

Thanks Mr. Attorney General. We’ll quote you in our opposition to your demand.

Bob