Editorial: California locks people in prisons, and locks out reporters and even lawmakers (via latimesopinion )
is bad news for good bills. If proposed legislation carries a price tag, even if it’s speculative, it’s going to have a hard time getting past this week’s appropriations deadline and onto the floor of the state Senate or Assembly for a vote.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation currently grants some media requests to tour prisons and interview incarcerated people, and some county sheriffs do the same with their jails. But they don’t have to. The bill would restore a presumption in favor of media access subject only to reasonable time, place and manner restrictions necessary to safely manage the institutions and the volume of requests.
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