California Supreme Court
Sep. 9, 2006
State Supreme Court in 'Copley' Undermines Accountability of Police
FORUM COLUMN - The state Supreme Court's decision in Copley Press Inc. v. Superior Court, 2006 DJDAR 11839 (Aug. 31, 2006), undermines the accountability of police departments and wrongly favors the special interests of officers over the public's right to know.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
Forum Column
By Erwin Chemerinsky
The state Supreme Court's decision in Copley Press Inc. v. Superior Court, 2006 DJDAR 11839 (Aug. 31, 2006), undermines the accountability of police departments and wrongly favors the special interests of officers over the public's right to know. The court held that there is not access under the California Public Records Act to a Civil Service Co...
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