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Why the California Ban on “Disseminat[ing] Information” “Relating to a Sealed Arrest” Violates the First Amendment
An excerpt from FIRE’s memorandum filed last night: Both as applied to Plaintiffs and on its face as to everyone who disseminates lawfully obtained information about sealed arrests, the anti-dissemination statute violates the First Amendment as a presumptively unconstitutional content-based speech restriction that cannot withstand strict scrutiny. Reed v. Town of Gilbert (2015); see also […]
