August 2022

Florida Federal Court Releases Redacted Warrant Affidavit in Unprecedented Search of Former President Trump’s Florida Residence

By Charles D. Tobin and Elizabeth Seidlin-Bernstein

PUBLISHED IN: MediaLawLetter July-August 2022

TOPICS : Access / FOIA, Government Records

The news organizations argued that, even in the middle of an investigation and before any indictment, a search warrant affidavit is a judicial record to which the presumption of public access attaches.

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