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Criminal

Feb. 19, 2019

Lawsuits proliferate on police personnel records issue

With the state’s top law enforcement official declining to retroactively disclose certain law enforcement personnel records, attorneys for media organizations and First Amendment nonprofits are mounting an equally litigious counter offense against police unions hunting for injunctions.

As the state attorney general doubled down on his stance to deny retroactive disclosures of certain law enforcement personnel records, a Los Angeles County judge tentatively struck down the local police association's request for protection from the law that would require such disclosures.

On Friday, Judge Mitchell Beckloff issued a tentative ruling denying the Associa...

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