July 2021

Obfuscating Mercy: How The California Supreme Court Finally Addressed Secretive Pardons

By Selina MacLaren and Thomas R. Burke

PUBLISHED IN: MediaLawLetter July 2021

TOPICS : Access / FOIA, Government Records

The new rule rejects the governor’s decades-old practice of automatically sealing clemency files, but places the onus on the public to move for unsealing.

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