SOUTH COAST NEWSPAPERS, INC. v. CITY OF OCEANSIDE

Docket No. D000706.

160 Cal.App.3d 261 (1984)

206 Cal. Rptr. 527

SOUTH COAST NEWSPAPERS, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF OCEANSIDE, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

September 24, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Swirsky & Sauer and W.N. Sauer, Jr., for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Robert G. Steiner, Gregory D. Roper, Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, Musick, Peeler & Garrett, Stephen G. Contopulos and Anthony Russo, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Charles R. Revlett, City Attorney, Warren B. Diven and Amy Greyson, Assistant City Attorneys, Pamela K. Klahn, Deputy City Attorney, and Suuzen Ty Anderson for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

STANIFORTH, Acting P.J.

This appeal questions denial of South Coast Newspapers, Inc.'s (South Coast) (the public's) right to inspect or receive a copy of the police report of an investigation undertaken by an Oceanside police officer in response to oral complaints from Oceanside residents a high school principal had failed to report an incident of child abuse. The trial court declared the report was statutorily protected from...

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