Following objections from newspaper attorneys, an appellate court on Friday reversed its previous order to seal a court filing that included excerpts of a critical report on an officer-involved-shooting in Pasadena.
The unsealed court papers contain excerpts of an independent consultant’s report on the 2012 shooting of an unarmed black teenager by two police officers.
Pasadena’s police union has been fighting to keep the report secret since last summer, arguing that it includes privileged and sensitive information about the officers and their actions.
Attorneys for the union, which sued the city of Pasadena to stop the report from becoming public, themselves included portions of the report in a recent filing.
The 2nd District Court of Appeal last month granted the union’s request to seal the court filing after it had been publicly available for more than a week. Union attorneys said the disclosure was a mistake.
Attorneys for The Times, the teenager’s mother and Pasadena community groups protested the court order, saying the retroactive sealing amounted to unconstitutional censorship because it forbade a media organization from publishing information already in its possession.
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