Constitutional Law
Sep. 9, 2014
Secrecy trumped public debate in license plate ruling
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Chalfant recently rejected a California Public Records Act lawsuit brought against the LAPD and L.A. County Sheriff's Department for a week's worth of license plate data. By Jennifer Lynch
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Chalfant recently rejected a California Public Records Act (CPRA) lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California against the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) for a week's worth of license plate data. In holding that this data on millions of law-abiding Angelenos was properly withheld as a &qu...
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