April 18, 2024
5-2 High Court Majority: County Prosecutor Organization Not Required to Turn Over Records to ACLU
"Although I wish the dissent’s reasoning had prevailed, what seems clear is that when CPANJ’s records are in the hands of a prosecutor or other public agency, they can likely still be obtained that way," CJ Griffin, director of the Justice Gary S. Stein Public Interest Center at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, said in a statement emailed to the Law Journal. "It will just take much more time and effort to track down which of the 21 prosecutor offices holds a particular document."
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