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Friday, August 24, 2007

Public access denied

Three months to the day after a hearing in Superior Court, Judge Lauren P. Thomasson has issued her ruling on the Tracy Press Inc. v. City of Tracy, City Council and Suzanne Tucker.

The judge denied our request for e-mail records sought in the California Public Records Act.

We're disappointed in the ruling, but we plan to appeal. For background on the case, see my "public access" postings. A news story is in the works.

I've scanned the ruling and posted the pages, below. To read them, you'll have to click on the images to enlarge them, and then hit your back-arrow button to come back to the blog. It's funky, I know, but the best a nontechie editor can do!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The ruling is one thing (really, really wrong) The 90 days is another, same length of time with the Ordinance 1095 lawsuit, Humphries took over 90 days. What's with these judges? Too busy to do their job in a reasonable timeframe?