Following a series of protests over the last year, council members are trying to reform the special permitting process their own staff admit is broken.
Tag: American Civil Liberties Union
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Judge Scolds Sheriff Barnes for Claiming Court Ordered Dangerous Inmates Released to Streets
The court order said Sheriff Don Barnes could transfer inmates to other types of custody.
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OC Sheriff Faces Tough Questions in Court Today About Jail Outbreak
The hearing comes as over 1,000 inmates are currently infected with coronavirus. Four are hospitalized, and one has died from the outbreak as of Wednesday.
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Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Alleging OC Sheriff, Prosecutors Illegally Use Informants
The court’s focus will be whether the informant program is ongoing and whether it is illegal, the appeals justices wrote.
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OC Judge Allows Lawsuit Against Orange County Public Comment Policies to Move Forward
A lawsuit alleging Orange County supervisors have unconstitutionally restricted public comments got the green light to move forward Wednesday.
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More People Could Get Out of Jail Under New Court Orders
The new measures will result in less people in the jails, reads an administrative order from OC Superior Presiding Judge Kirk Nakamura, “thus alleviating some of the pressures for arraignments within 48 hours and preliminary hearings within 10 days.”
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OC Approves New Policy to Immediately Destroy Public Records
The policy change comes after a judge found the county failed to cite a valid legal justification to destroy records before two years. ACLU lawyers say the new policy goes against the court ruling, while county officials say it’s entirely legal.
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OC Proposes New Policy to Destroy Public Records Before 2 Years
A new policy, up for approval Tuesday, comes on the heels of a court ruling and order this summer tossing out the county’s previous reason for destroying records before two years.
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County Asks Court to Let It Keep Deleting Texts About Government Business
County officials are trying “to circumvent California Supreme Court precedent regarding the preservation of text messages,” the ACLU told the court in response. County officials declined to respond to questions about their proposed order.
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Despite Ruling, County Won’t Say If It Will Stop Immediately Destroying Public Records
OC officials may have found a way to continue to immediately destroy many public records of their government communications, despite a court ruling that it’s probably illegal to do so.
