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"title": "Los Angeles County judge orders reporters not to publish courtroom photographs",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"o1qnc\">On Sept. 26, 2018, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Gustavo N. Sztraicher ordered journalists not to publish images taken during the arraignment hearing of Ramon Escobar, who was charged with the murders of multiple homeless people in Southern California.</p><p data-block-key=\"o55qx\">According to court documents, Sztraicher gave permission to journalists from The Los Angeles Times, The Associated Press and a television news station to document the proceedings after hearing no objections. However, once reporters began taking photographs, an attorney for Escobar raised an objection, citing an “identification issue.”</p><p data-block-key=\"h315m\">Although photographs of Escobar had already been released and published by media outlets, the objection was sustained by Sztraicher, who then ordered reporters to stop taking photos and video. He also ordered a sketch artist to stop drawing.</p><p data-block-key=\"j965g\">Dan Laidman, an attorney representing The Times and the AP, provided documents that show the journalists were unsure if the court had simply halted further photography or had prohibited publishing images already taken. Journalists, including Times reporters Gina Ferazzi and James Queally, asked the judge for further instruction.</p><p data-block-key=\"ydtzw\">“When journalists pressed for clarification, the judge ruled that the publication of any images, videos or sketches of Escobar from the court hearing would be considered a violation of a court order,” <a href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-escobar-photo-20180926-story.html\">The Times reported</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"22eus\">At a hearing the following day, Laidman argued the order was “flatly unconstitutional” and asked that it be vacated, noting the Supreme Court has never upheld a prior restraint.</p><p data-block-key=\"lp8wh\">“The Times understands that this Court issued its prior restraint because of concerns about an unspecified ‘identification’ issue concerning Defendant, and out of concern for his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial. But these interests simply do not justify a prior restraint here,” Laidman wrote in the court brief. “The September 26 Order is at odds with the basic purpose of the First Amendment - namely, to prevent the government from imposing prior restraints against the press. […] The Times, therefore, respectfully requests that the Court vacate the Order immediately.”</p><p data-block-key=\"8k5v8\">Escobar’s attorney argued that because Sztraicher’s permission was granted verbally and not through written order, the photographs were obtained unlawfully.</p><p data-block-key=\"ghdi7\">Sztraicher denied this argument, acknowledging journalists had obtained prior verbal approval, and vacated his order.</p><p data-block-key=\"84nwy\">“Defense attorneys often argue that publishing their client’s image before trial could improperly sway witnesses, … Once photographs have been taken legally, however, a judgeccccccjfk typically can’t bar news outlets from publishing them,” <a href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-escobar-photo-hearing-20180927-story.html\">The Times reported</a> following the hearing.</p><p data-block-key=\"vfcr7\">The AP also published on the successful free speech defense.</p><p data-block-key=\"8r19a\">“The order should never have been issued in the first place,” David Snyder, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, <a href=\"https://apnews.com/564a8911b89d4f3d819aee6846c896bb\">told the AP</a>. “I’m glad the court saw the light of day.”</p><p data-block-key=\"tyi68\">In a statement emailed to the Freedom of the Press Foundation about the decision, The Times’ Executive Editor Norman Pearlstine noted how the judge’s courtroom ruling put the news outlet in a difficult position.</p><p data-block-key=\"q7qor\">“It is distressing that once again the Los Angeles Times needs to resort to litigation to preserve our rights under the 1st Amendment,” Pearlstine said.</p><p data-block-key=\"t8q7g\">Earlier in the year, The Times filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals to rescind a restraining order against publishing information made public in the criminal case of former narcotics detective John Balian. That <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/judge-orders-los-angeles-times-remove-certain-facts-published-article/\">order was also reversed</a> after a day.</p></div>",
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"title": "Journalist Karen Savage arrested for second time while covering anti-pipeline protest in Louisiana",
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Although some of the co-owners of the Atchafalaya River Basin property have given the company permission to build the pipeline, hundreds of others have <a href=\"https://www.nola.com/landowners-sue-bayou-bridge-claiming-pipeline-company-improperly-seized-private-land/article_ad04db97-1a9e-5965-a145-f9619b7fed21.html\">refused</a> to do so. Despite this, the company had already begun making alterations to the land, including removing trees and digging a ditch. It has also asked the state of Louisiana to use eminent domain to seize the land from the co-owners who object to the pipeline.</p><p data-block-key=\"sadag\">Savage told Freedom of the Press Foundation that one of the co-owners of the Atchafalaya Basin land who is resisting the pipeline had given her permission to be on the property.</p><p data-block-key=\"i2c3u\">“Some were actively resisting, and I had a letter from a landowner saying we were welcome to be on the property," she said. "For people to visit the property, you only need permission from one landowner.”</p><p data-block-key=\"ruvgo\">Savage had previously been <a href=\"https://theintercept.com/2018/08/22/recent-arrests-under-new-anti-protest-law-spotlight-risks-that-off-duty-cops-pose-to-pipeline-opponents/\">arrested for trespassing</a> while reporting on the pipeline protests on Aug. 18. Once she was released on bail, she returned to the resistance camp at the Atchafalaya River Basin to continue covering the protest movement.</p><p data-block-key=\"d12vn\">Savage said that on September 3 and 4, she witnessed law enforcement officers treated protesters badly.</p><p data-block-key=\"w37ft\">“They chased them, tackled them, and allowed pipeline security employees to put their hands on protesters,” she said. “It was heavily violence and I got some pictures of law enforcement chasing them.”</p><p data-block-key=\"pgxyn\">She said that a few weeks later, on Sept. 17, she was riding in a vehicle that was pulled over in a different parish in Louisiana. The officers ran the ID’s of everyone in the car, but everything came back fine and they were allowed to proceed after receiving a citation.</p><p data-block-key=\"bevbg\">The next day, sheriff’s deputies claimed that Savage had an outstanding warrant dating from Sept. 3.</p><p data-block-key=\"7nxd7\">Savage said that on September 18, she was tipped off by protesters to come to a particular part of the swamp, and when she pulled up in her boat to the ramp, she saw sheriff’s department officers present. As Savage began photographing the scene, the officers came to her and arrested her, allegedly on an outstanding warrant.</p><p data-block-key=\"b9c08\">“They said they were arresting me for an outstanding warrant,” she said. “But I knew there was nothing out for me.”</p><p data-block-key=\"vo602\">Savage said that an individual who witnessed the arrest called the sheriff’s department to inquire why she was arrested and learned that there was no warrant out for her.</p><p data-block-key=\"y2y8v\">Savage was arrested under <a href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bayou-bridge-activists-anti-protest-law-is-anti-american_us_5ba53c4ce4b0181540dcd246\">Louisiana's newly-enacted state law</a> against “unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure project.” The Louisiana state law — which only went into effect on Aug. 1 — makes trespassing on a “critical infrastructure project” like an oil pipeline a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.</p><p data-block-key=\"7urh5\">She had previously been arrested under the same law on Aug. 18.</p><p data-block-key=\"thd4f\">Savage contrasted her treatment by the sheriff’s department to her previous arrest while covering the protest in August. Then, she said, the arrest wasn’t violent. But this time, she said the officers grabbed her roughly and pulled her hands back.</p><p data-block-key=\"o5cjn\">“They really hurt me arms, shoulders, and wrists,” she said. “It was really unnecessary.”</p><p data-block-key=\"86tks\">She said that the officers put her in the back of a police car and then drove her around for about an hour, which she found suspicious.</p><p data-block-key=\"aeufc\">“It’s a 20 minute drive to the station,” she said. “But they kept driving around through sugar cane fields, and I had no idea where he was taking me. I thought maybe it was intimidation because they didn’t actually have a warrant.”</p><p data-block-key=\"bj0h6\">The St. Martin’s Sheriff Department did not respond to request for comment.</p><p data-block-key=\"5luzi\">Savage said that, despite her two arrests, the local district attorney has not brought any criminal charges against her.</p><p data-block-key=\"l4nmx\">“I’m doubtful that they ever will,” she said. “It was a very clear intimidation tactic to stop me from covering the story.”</p><p data-block-key=\"aql2v\">“I will go back,” she added. “I’m not going to let them intimidate me. It’s our job to hold these officials accountable.”</p></div>",
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"title": "Man intentionally crashes truck into local TV station in Dallas, Texas",
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"title": "Grand jury subpoenas independent journalist for video footage of DC protest",
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Simon also said that Murray threatened him with "bodily harm."</p><p data-block-key=\"ct0m0\">Simon told the paper that he did not recognize Murray in the restaurant — “he looks so different than he used to look,” he said — and that both he and Murray asked each other, “Do you know who I am?” He said that he tried to defuse the situation by apologizing to Murray and giving him the peace sign.</p><p data-block-key=\"3x1an\">But according to Simon, Murray later elbowed him and poured water on him and his camera.</p><p data-block-key=\"e3bkw\">“I’ve never been treated like that in my life,” Simon told the MV Times.</p><p data-block-key=\"8xym5\">After the altercation, Simon called the police. 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I don’t care about PR. That’s why I don’t want photographers in my place.”</p><p data-block-key=\"2wikk\">Simon objects to that characterization.</p><p data-block-key=\"3rdh3\">“I’m not a paparazzi-type photographer, I’m just not,” he told the Globe.</p><p data-block-key=\"ogfbf\">According to Showbiz411, Simon has been banned from Lola’s for a year as a result of what happened with Murray.</p><p data-block-key=\"3ixec\">Kageleiry said that she apologized to Domitrovich for not warning her in advance that the paper was sending a photographer to Lola’s.</p></div>",
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When he spotted a police officer in civilian clothes with a badge around his neck, he said he waved and explained that he was a reporter taking photos for a story. The officer waved back as he walked to his car.</p><p data-block-key=\"15mes\">Mendez said he also noticed a uniformed MPD officer walking through the parking lot toward a police wagon. The uniformed officer did not wave back to Mendez.</p><p data-block-key=\"d3r6l\">After Mendez finished taking photos and left the lot, he saw that the police wagon was following him.</p><p data-block-key=\"55xzl\">“I drove about two blocks away,” he told Freedom of the Press Foundation. “I noticed in my rearview that there was a paddy wagon. It followed me for about four more blocks and then pulled me over. 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