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$369,000 Settlement in Police Raid of Journalist’s Home and Office
Loaded on May 15, 2020
published in Criminal Legal News
June, 2020, page 36
It was a quieting day for First Amendment freedom when San Francisco cops and the FBI raided the home and newsroom of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody May 10, 2019, in search of the source of a confidential police report into the Feb. 22, 2019, death of elected San Francisco Public ...
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