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Some hail the disclosures as an important step toward police accountability. Others say internal investigations -- 'police investigating the police' -- still control what gets released.

Bill Ayub reflects on his four years as Ventura County sheriff.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reviewed almost two dozen lawsuits filed in the past five years that accused San Diego or other local jurisdictions of failing to comply with the state open-records law by claiming unjustified exemptions or denying there were any documents to release. All but two were lodged against San Diego.

"Social media is not a bedside diary," Associate Justice Leondra Kruger wrote in throwing out the conviction of Nicholas Hoskins. The case raised First Amendment issues similar to another San Diego case years earlier.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on December 12 joined nearly 40 other press freedom and civil liberty organizations in a letter to US Senate

Chico State University faculty said the case needed an independent investigation so students knew action was being taken.

Civil liberties organisations call on the US Senate Majority Leader to ensure the PRESS Act, a shield law protecting journalists, progresses.

Three newly elected members of the Ojai City Council and the mayor will be sworn in at the Tuesday, Dec. 13, Ojai City Council meeting.

PEN America joined with partner organizations to express concern in the case against Julian Assange, and call for charges against him to be dropped.

More than a year before police say Anderson Lee Aldrich killed five people and wounded 17 others at a gay night club in Colorado Springs, Aldrich was arrested on allegations of making a bomb threat that led to the evacuation of about 10 homes