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Texas journalist files suit following arrest, equipment seizure

Incident Details

Updated on: May 15, 2024
Date of incident: December 21, 2021
Location: Damon, Texas
Case number: 4:22-cv-04210
Targets: Justin Pulliam (Independent)
Case status: Ongoing
Type of case: Civil

Arrest status →: Arrested and released
Arresting authority →: Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office
Charges →: Obstruction: interference with public duties

May 16, 2022: Charges pending

May 15, 2024: Charges dropped
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

Equipment searched or seized →: Camera, 2

Cellphone, 1

External battery, 1

Miscellaneous equipment, 3

Recording equipment, 1

Storage device, 2
Status of equipment →: Returned in part
Search warrant obtained →: Yes

Legal orders →: warrant for communications or work product

Jan. 14, 2022: Pending

Jan. 14, 2022: Carried out

warrant for communications or work product

Jan. 14, 2022: Pending

Jan. 14, 2022: Carried out
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

Independent journalist assaulted while documenting anti-vaccine protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: December 18, 2021
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Sean Beckner-Carmitchel (Independent)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

As many as 20 journalists investigated by secretive CBP division

Incident Details

Date of incident: December 11, 2021
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: Ali Watkins (Politico), Arianna Huffington (HuffPost), Martha Mendoza (The Associated Press), Media, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal

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Former BuzzFeed reporter ordered to submit documents in lawsuit against Kevin Spacey

Incident Details

Date of incident: December 6, 2021
Location: New York, New York
Targets: Adam Vary (BuzzFeed News)

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

Dec. 6, 2021: Pending

Dec. 14, 2021: Objected to

Dec. 16, 2021: Ignored

Dec. 29, 2021: Pending

Jan. 12, 2022: Objected to

Feb. 22, 2022: Pending

Feb. 28, 2022: Objected to

May 19, 2022: Upheld

May 23, 2022: Objected to

Aug. 9, 2022: Upheld

Aug. 15, 2022: Carried out
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: Federal

San Francisco Chronicle photographer robbed at gunpoint in Oakland, cameras stolen

Incident Details

Date of incident: December 3, 2021
Location: Oakland, California
Targets: Unidentified photojournalist 14 (San Francisco Chronicle)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Unknown

Equipment broken →: Camera, 2
Actor →: Private individual

Photojournalist arrested, equipment seized while documenting homeless encampment

Incident Details

Updated on: July 23, 2024
Date of incident: November 30, 2021
Location: Sausalito, California
Case number: 3:22-cv-01029
Targets: Jeremy Portje (Freelance)
Case status: Settled
Type of case: Civil

Arrest status →: Arrested and released
Arresting authority →: Sausalito Police Department
Charges →: Obstruction: resisting an executive officer

Dec. 1, 2021: Charges pending

Dec. 28, 2021: Charges dropped

Assault: battery on a police officer

Dec. 1, 2021: Charges pending

Dec. 28, 2021: Charges dropped

Assault: battery on a police officer with injury

Dec. 1, 2021: Charges pending

Dec. 28, 2021: Charges dropped
Detention date →: November 30, 2021
Release date →: December 1, 2021
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Equipment searched or seized →: Camera lens, 1

Storage device, 2

Camera equipment, 1

Recording equipment, 3

Camera, 1

Cellphone, 1

External battery, 1
Status of equipment →: Returned in full
Search warrant obtained →: Yes

Legal orders →: warrant for communications or work product

Dec. 9, 2021: Pending

Dec. 21, 2021: Carried out
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

Bay Area broadcast security guard shot, killed in attempted robbery of news crew

Incident Details

Updated on: March 16, 2022
Date of incident: November 24, 2021
Location: Oakland, California
Targets: Unidentified journalist 5 (KRON-TV)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Freelance journalist sues following House Committee’s subpoena of her phone records

Incident Details

Updated on: December 5, 2022
Date of incident: November 24, 2021
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Case number: 1:21-cv-03290
Targets: Amy Harris (Freelance)
Case status: Withdrawn
Type of case: Civil

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

Nov. 24, 2021: Pending

Dec. 5, 2022: Dropped
Legal order target →: Third-party: Verizon (telecom company)
Legal order venue →: Federal

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