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HAMMONS v. SCOTT

No. C-75-0846 WHO.

423 F.Supp. 618 (1976)

Adolph HAMMONS, Jr., Plaintiff, v. Donald F. SCOTT, Chief of Police, City and County of San Francisco, State of California, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

August 10, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Pulliam, Jr., San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

James R. Browning, Jr., U.S. Atty., George Christopher Stoll, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for Federal defendants.

Thomas M. O'Connor, City Atty., John A. Etchevers, Deputy City Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for Donald F. Scott.

Kenneth C. Young, Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for State defendant.

Before SNEED, Circuit Judge, and EAST and ORRICK, District Judges.

OPINION

This case is but another in a growing body of law presenting the question as to what, if any, restraints should be imposed upon the practices of public agencies regarding the maintenance and dissemination of arrest records of persons who were never convicted of the crimes for which they were arrested. The issues raised have been described as a "particularly sensitive area of law, concerning the developing relationship between values of individual privacy...

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