1st Amend lawyer. Adjunct Prof., UC Irvine Law School, Press Freedom Project. Putting the Bite Back into the Public Records Act. sseager1.clinic@law.uci.edu
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Jan 14
It’s not a controversy. It’s illegal. It violates the federal Privacy Protection Act of 1980, which bans search warrants of newsrooms, reporters’ computers, notebooks, and other unpublished information.
Jan 14
A huge controversy of the Obama DOJ was when it obtained the phone records of Fox's James Rosen, then two AP reporters, to find out who was leaking classified docs.
The Trump FBI just searched the home of a WashPost reporter with the same motive:
nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/po…
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31 Oct 2025
NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/…
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31 Oct 2025
“The free press has the rights it does, not for itself, but for us. Much of the free press has voluntarily surrendered, not its right, but our right, your right, to a free press.” Yale Access & Accountability Conference 2025.
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12 Oct 2025
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/fl… via @eff
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9 Oct 2025
What will @BobShrum do when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?
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9 Oct 2025
What will @USCGouldLaw when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?
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9 Oct 2025
I used to be able to keep these DAILY MEMOs to under 3 minutes, the last couple videos have been impossible to. ICE is escalating in Los Angeles, just look at the article version with every incident highlighted. This is only what we could confirm, only what we know of. @LATACO
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9 Oct 2025
What will @USCAnnenberg do when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?
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2 Oct 2025
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky: Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion nytimes.com/2025/10/02/opini… #Opinion via @NYTOpinion
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19 Sep 2025
Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York Times. Hey @Disney and Bob Iger: why not take a cue from the brave @nytimes and fight Trump instead of bowing down to him every time? washingtonpost.com/business/…
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16 Aug 2025
Israel has killed (mostly murdered) 269 journalists since Oct. 2023.
In Anas al-Sharif’s final broadcast, he showed children starving in Gaza.
Hours later, Israel killed him in a targeted airstrike on press tents, along with 5 other journalists.
Israel has killed at least 269 journalists in Gaza since October 2023.
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12 Jun 2025
To LA #Press: if you think you shouldn’t testify in court about cops violating your rights because of the reporters privilege - you should know YOU own the privilege. Not your news org or its lawyers. It’s your choice to testify or not. And it’s your duty to testify.
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8 Jun 2025
Great biography - I’d grab a copy while it’s still legal
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7 Nov 2024
Thin and scrawny but strong and thorny stems of hope for democracy and human rights in America. #rollupyoursleeves #rollupoursleeves
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18 Oct 2024
This is a great admission from the LAPD to say that the First Amendment protects the right of reporters to film gov’t workers in public. Of course, that’s the law. But this “detention” is still illegal. It is illegal to “catch and release” reporters. @LAPDHQ
18 Oct 2024
After I was handcuffed and held in an LAPD patrol car for around 40 minutes for filming a sweep, Sgt. Hutchins explained that I was "detained" and not "arrested" because he determined "there wasn't a violation of the LMC code" due to my "media 1st Amendment status." @LATACO
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3 Oct 2024
Solano County Judge Stephen Gizzi ruled from a locked courtroom Wednesday that a report into @VallejoPD badge bending will remain largely secret, dismissing objections from @ACLU_NorCal and Open Vallejo that the courtroom closure was unconstitutional. openvallejo.org/2024/10/02/f…
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25 Sep 2024
Thank you, Senator @RonWyden, for inviting me to testify at today's @SenateFinance committee hearing on the chaos and suffering experienced by women being denied #reproductive healthcare because of abortion bans.
24 Sep 2024
Republican Senator Ron Johnson called today’s @SenateFinance committee hearing on the impact of extreme Republican abortion laws after Dobbs “dangerous.”
You need to watch the response.
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