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CITY OF BATON ROUGE v. CAPITAL CITY PRESS

Nos. 2007 CA 1088, 2007 CA 1089.

4 So.3d 807 (2008)

CITY OF BATON ROUGE/PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE v. CAPITAL CITY PRESS, L.L.C. d/b/a The Advocate Capital City Press and Kimberly Vetter v. East Baton Rouge Parish Metropolitan Council and The Baton Rouge Police Department.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Dismissed January 16, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary E. Roper, E. Wade Shows, Gwendolyn K. Brown, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Appellees, City of Baton Rouge/Parish of East Baton Rouge.

Floyd J. Falcon, Jr., Daniel L. Avant, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Intervenors/Appellees, Baton Rouge Union of Police, Local # 237, AFL-CIO, et al.

Lloyd J. Lunceford, Edwin W. Fleshman, Tom S. Easterly, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Appellants, Capital City Press, L.L.C. d/b/a The Advocate and Kimberly Vetter.

Claude A. Schlesinger, C. Theodore Alpaugh, III, New Orleans, Louisiana, for Appellees, Louisiana State Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police; Patrick J. Yoes; Baton Rouge Lodge Number 1, Fraternal Order of Police; and Cory N. Reech.

Before PARRO, KUHN, GUIDRY, DOWNING, and WELCH, JJ.

KUHN, J.

In this appeal, we consider whether the trial court erred in concluding that Internal Affairs Division ("IAD") files of the Baton Rouge Police Department ("the BRPD"), be deemed confidential under La. R.S. 40:2532 and not subject to disclosure under the Public Records Act, La. R.S. 44:1 et seq.1 Finding that the police officers under investigation had no individual privacy interest in these files and recognizing a strong...

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