L.A. Superior Judge Mitchell Beckloff's ruling was a clear win for Knock LA photo editor Ben Camacho and for the activist group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Media organizations including the Los Angeles Times are supporting a local journalist being sued by L.A. for publishing photographs of LAPD officers.Beckloff ruled that the city had failed to make even the most basic arguments necessary for court intervention, including that the flash drive actually included images of undercover officers whose pictures would not otherwise be subject to disclosure under Camacho’s public records request.
“No one knows what’s on the flash drive except the city. The city elected here not to present any admissible evidence about what’s on the flash drive,” the judge said.
City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto’s office declined to comment Wednesday. It has previously said its goal in filing the lawsuit was to protect officers “whose lives and families’ lives could be in grave danger as a result of this exposure.”A judge won’t issue a temporary restraining order against a reporter and an activist group that released LAPD officers’ photos.
“We’re proud that the court saw through the city’s case, that the city has never defined who an undercover officer is, it’s never identified with any specificity who was supposedly undercover on the flash drive,” Seager said.
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