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posted by chromas on Monday July 02 2018, @08:48PM   Printer-friendly
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Judge slams Tacoma for not releasing stingray records

A judge in Washington state has excoriated the Tacoma Police Department for withholding public records pertaining to its use of cell-site simulators, also known as stingrays. Back in 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington state sued the TPD on behalf of four community leaders, arguing that the department has not adequately responded to their public records requests concerning the use of stingrays, which included asking for a blank form authorizing its use.

"The [Public Records Act] establishes a positive duty to disclose public records unless they fall within specific exemptions," Judge G. Helen Whitener wrote in her Monday opinion. "This mandates that the City, upon receiving a request for documents, must first do an adequate search and then must produce the documents requested if there is not an exemption. The PRA does not require the City to analyze the reasons why the document is requested or to determine the relevance of the documents requested even if they are blank forms. The blank form taken in context of the other forms may have meaning to the requestor, and it is not for the City to analyze its relevance. To adopt the City's interpretation of the PRA would defeat the broad mandate of the PRA to allow access to public records not covered by and exemption."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @10:50PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @10:50PM (#701614)

    In my original timeline, the riots began in late August this year.

    Divergence can cause small changes between timelines that otherwise present larger features leading to convergence in a Stein's gate.

    President Hillary Clinton will be remembered for the FEMA concentration camps. President Trump may be remembered for the ICE concentration camps. The larger features are the ruling class' attempts to resolve the inherent contradictions of the system that gave them their aristocracy. They will try anything and everything, even reducing every major city to irradiated ruins, to retain that power.

    Unless

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 05 2018, @04:18AM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 05 2018, @04:18AM (#702838) Journal

    In my original timeline, the riots began in late August this year.

    Whatever.

    Unless

    it just doesn't happen that way, eh?