Court dissolves order barring release of police misconduct records
Editor's note: This story has been updated to add comments from the Ventura County Deputy Sheriffs' Association on the court opinion. An appellate court Wednesday overturned a Ventura County judge's ruling blocking the release of certain police misconduct records made public under a 2018 law. The three-justice panel in the 2nd District Court of Appeal's Division Six, located in downtown Ventura, reversed the trial court's judgment and dissolved a court order opening up the records to the public for the first time. Ventura County was the last jurisdiction in the state where police un...