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Title: Bad Cops Furious After Judge Orders Records of Problem Police Officers to Be Unsealed
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The Free Thought Project
URL Source: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-unions-bad-cops-records/
Published: Mar 2, 2019
Author: Free Thought Project
Post Date: 2019-03-02 16:04:43 by Hondo68
Keywords: complaints of sexual assault, Perp Walk, police misconduct, police shootings
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LOS ANGELES (CN) – A judge in Southern California lifted a temporary seal on Orange County police misconduct records Thursday, striking another blow to police unions who’ve argued in courts across the state that unsealing the records violates officers’ constitutional rights to privacy. The new California law opens up access to previously shielded internal records on police shootings, complaints of sexual assault by officers and internal records on police misconduct. Attorneys for the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs sought to stop the release of records, arguing in court papers that state lawmakers were unclear whether they intended for the law – which took effect on Jan. 1 – to apply to all records, including those that cover past incidents. But Orange County Superior Court Judge Nathan Scott denied the union’s request for a preliminary injunction, saying in a 10-page order Thursday that the temporary restraining order he approved will be lifted on March 15 in a timeline that allows the union to appeal the ruling if they choose. An attorney for the union did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday. Scott dismissed the union’s argument that officers’ privacy protections were at risk, saying in the order that the disclosure of misconduct records was a matter of public interest and that it is “unknown whether any released information will actually harm the officer.” The order also said the county, which had maintained a neutral stance in the matter, was not doing what the union sought to stop: satisfying public records request under the law. “There is no point issuing an injunction to stop the County from doing something it has not yet done, is not now doing, and does not immediately intend to do,” the order said, adding that any injunction would have been unlawfully preemptive. The proper course of legal action would be initiated by someone requesting records from the county, the order said. If the county denies the request, the requester could seek a court order requiring production of the records. “Any individual officer affected by the disclosure could then intervene in that action,” Scott wrote in the order. “That’s not this case.” Scott also disagreed with the union’s argument that the Legislature failed to unambiguously state that the law applies to all records. “Nothing in the plain language of the statute suggests the Legislature intended to exclude records relating to pre-2019 incidents,” the order said.
Poster Comment: The Thin Blue Line has been breached. The Free Thought Project is giving the officers the Perp Walk. More Grand Jury indictments for the Police Officers, very likely. Let freedom reign. God bless America, and The Free Thought Project for truthful reporting! Police unions have been fighting tooth and nail to keep records of their misconduct sealed from the public's view, but all that just changed.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
The Thin Blue Line has until March 15 to appeal. If the appeal is filed, the existing TRO will likely remain in effect until it is ruled upon. Let truth reign.
A kid swallowed all the Scrabble letters. Now his poop shows more intelligence than a libertarian.
The Thin Blue Line has been breached.
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