Politics & Government

Court Again Says All Cops in Pepper-Spray Incident Must be Named Publicly

A California appellate court has ruled in favor of a public records act lawsuit by the Sacramento Bee and Los Angeles Times.

A state appellate court has ruled in favor of a public records lawsuit by the Sacramento Bee and Los Angeles Times, saying all of the UC Davis Police officers involved in the 2011 pepper-spray incident must be named publicly.

This is the third such court ruling, but each time there has been an immediate stay to allow the officers' union a chance to appeal, the Sacramento Bee reports.

The union is mulling the decision to appeal to the state supreme court, the Bee and the Times report.

"Following a similar ruling last year by a Superior Court judge in Alameda County, the three-judge appeals court in San Francisco unanimously held that the California Public Records Act allows the newspapers to obtain names of the dozen or so UC police who planned, participated or witnessed the pepper spraying," the LA Times reports.

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