A San Francisco reporter is seeking the return of his property after police raided his home with a sledgehammer while looking for the source of a leaked police report into the death of the city’s public defender.
An attorney for freelancer Bryan Carmody will make the request Tuesday in San Francisco County Superior Court, arguing that “the free flow of information to the public is jeopardized” when government interferes with independent newsgathering.
“Seizing the entire haystack to find the needle risks violating the confidences Mr. Carmody owes to all his sources, not just the person who leaked the police report,” he said in a Monday tweet.
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