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Appellate judge rules California blog can publish — but not destroy — city records

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Updated On: May 12, 2021
Date of Incident: March 12, 2020
Location: Fullerton, California
Targets: Friends for Fullerton's Future

Status of Prior Restraint →: Struck down

California journalists sued for 'hacking' city’s open Dropbox folder; barred from publishing

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Updated On: May 12, 2021
Date of Incident: October 24, 2019
Location: Fullerton, California
Targets: Friends for Fullerton's Future

Status of Prior Restraint →: Dropped

New Mexico settles lawsuit alleging violations of state’s public records law

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Date of Incident: June 27, 2019
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Targets: Santa Fe Reporter

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Pennsylvania journalist barred from publishing document mistakenly made public, order vacated

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Date of Incident: May 30, 2019
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Targets: Reid Frazier (Allegheny Front, StateImpact Pennsylvania, 90.5 WESA)

Status of Prior Restraint →: Struck down

Unprecedented criminal complaint filed for violations of the Georgia Open Records Act

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Updated On: December 19, 2019
Date of Incident: February 11, 2019
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Targets: WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News

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Illinois County judge orders watchdog publication not to publish school records released by lawyer

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Date of Incident: February 4, 2019
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Targets: Better Government Association

Status of Prior Restraint →: Dropped

Federal judge orders Chicago Sun-Times not to publish information

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Date of Incident: January 2019
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Targets: Chicago Sun-Times

Status of Prior Restraint →: Ignored

California Attorney General threatens reporters with legal action over public record

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Date of Incident: January 29, 2019
Location: Berkeley, California
Targets: Jason Paladino (UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program; Investigative Studios), Robert Lewis (UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program; Investigative Studios)

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