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Sarasota Herald-Tribune prohibited from publishing deputies’ names

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Updated On: June 27, 2022
Date of Incident: June 10, 2022
Location: Sarasota, Florida
Targets: Melissa Pérez-Carrillo (Sarasota Herald-Tribune), Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Status of Prior Restraint →: Struck down

Denver Gazette barred from publishing article based on mistakenly released documents

Incident Details

Updated On: April 28, 2022
Date of Incident: April 25, 2022
Location: Brighton, Colorado
Targets: Julia Cardi (The Denver Gazette)

Status of Prior Restraint →: Struck down

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

Incident Details

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

Incident Details

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

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

Incident Details

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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Judge orders Los Angeles Times to delete published article about plea deal

Incident Details

Updated On: July 17, 2018
Date of Incident: July 14, 2018
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Los Angeles Times

Status of Prior Restraint →: Dropped

Las Vegas judge orders Review-Journal and AP not to report on publicly-available autopsy report

Incident Details

Updated On: February 27, 2018
Date of Incident: February 9, 2018
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Targets: Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Associated Press

Status of Prior Restraint →: Struck down

Iowa judge orders Des Moines Register not to publish article about attorney

Incident Details

Date of Incident: December 11, 2017
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Targets: Clark Kauffman (Des Moines Register)

Status of Prior Restraint →: Dropped

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