Susan E. Seager
@SusanESeager
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1st Amend lawyer. Adjunct Prof., UC Irvine Law School, Press Freedom Project. Putting the Bite Back into the Public Records Act. [email protected]
California, USA
Joined September 2009
To LA #Press: if you think you shouldn’t testify in court about cops violating your rights because of the reporters privilege - you should know YOU own the privilege. Not your news org or its lawyers. It’s your choice to testify or not. And it’s your duty to testify.
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Thin and scrawny but strong and thorny stems of hope for democracy and human rights in America. #rollupyoursleeves #rollupoursleeves
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This is a great admission from the LAPD to say that the First Amendment protects the right of reporters to film gov’t workers in public. Of course, that’s the law. But this “detention” is still illegal. It is illegal to “catch and release” reporters. @LAPDHQ.
After I was handcuffed and held in an LAPD patrol car for around 40 minutes for filming a sweep, Sgt. Hutchins explained that I was "detained" and not "arrested" because he determined "there wasn't a violation of the LMC code" due to my "media 1st Amendment status." @LATACO
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RT @OpenVallejo: Solano County Judge Stephen Gizzi ruled from a locked courtroom Wednesday that a report into @VallejoPD badge bending will….
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RT @michelebgoodwin: Thank you, Senator @RonWyden, for inviting me to testify at today's @SenateFinance committee hearing on the chaos and….
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@GavinNewsom & @californiapuc both killed my solar roof installer @SunPower by slashing payments to homeowners who installed solar panels after 4/2023. Horrible! Sammy_Roth @nytimes @AsmMikeFong
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Ha ha. 1st Amendment experts are not “torn” about whether the city of Springfield could sue Trump for libel for his vicious lies about Haitian immigrants in that city; the Supreme Court held in 1964 in NYT v Sullivan that gov’t entities and large groups cannot sue for libel.
Libel lawyers agree that Donald Trump’s comments about Haitian migrants have caused “tremendous” damage to Springfield, OH. But can Trump be sued for defamation?.
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Great story by our client Katey Rusch @UCBerkeleyIRP about hidden agreements that let bad cops hide misconduct & get new jobs. But these are PUBLIC RECORDS if they pay cops $$. Great work by students at @UCILaw in getting the records!
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@brianstelter If you haven’t done a story on the New York Times Pitchbot yet you must do so now. @DougJBalloon has been on fire!
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@LAPublicPress @eedugdale @keribla @kellyaviles @latimes Lo and behold, the court records that @RobBonta has been trying to keep secret since May turned out to be public court orders disclosing the discipline of LASD deputies who *chose* to file *public* lawsuits challenging their discipline. What happens in public courts is public!.
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Congrats to @LAPublicPress @eedugdale @keribla @kellyaviles @latimes for beating Cal Attorney General Rob Bonta 2x: 1st by winning order to unseal records he filed under seal in crim court & 2nd by publishing copies of the same records that journos found public civil court!.
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Spotty redactions and public records reveal names of deputies in case against DA advisor
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RT @jason_koebler: A year ago today we launched 404 Media. Thanks to the overwhelming support of our subscribers, we're very proud and hu….
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RT @ElieNYC: So, again, the CONSTITUTIONAL way to bring the Supreme Court to heel is to expand it, THEN pass your ethics bills and term lim….
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Humboldt County can’t claw back these documents now that they’ve been published. The county is seeking an unconstitutional prior restraint. The Los Angeles City Attorney is recommending that the City pay $300,000 in attorneys fees for filing an illegal claw back lawsuit.
After we published our story on Cal Poly, an attorney for Humboldt County emailed me and said some of the documents pertaining to “security procedures" had been disclosed “inadvertently," and requested that they be destroyed. They are still up on our site.
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