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Supervisors advance ordinance to remove SFPD access to Hall of Justice pressroom phone records
Summary
Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval introduced an ordinance to bar the police department from inspecting or using phone records for city telephones provided to news media at the Hall of Justice and to transfer administration to the Department of Administrative Services; SFPD officers spoke in support and the committee advanced the item with recommendation.
Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval introduced a short ordinance directing that telephone service provided for members of the news media at the Hall of Justice be administered by the Department of Administrative Services rather than the San Francisco Police Department and prohibiting the police department from inspecting or making use of those records. Sandoval said the change would be largely administrative — potentially requiring only a phone-company switch — and said the measure is intended to protect press civil liberties in…
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