From the First Amendment Project:

Journalist search warrant quashed! another First Amendment Project victoryPosted by David Greene at 4:55pmIn a huge and hard-fought victory for freedom of the press, an Alameda County Superior Court judge on Friday quashed a search warrant that had been used by the University of California Police Department to review photographs taken by a photojournalist covering the December 11, 2009 protests at the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s house. Judge Yolanda Northridge also ordered that UC return all copies of the photographs and submit a declaration to the court indicating with which other law enforcement agencies, if any, UC had shared the photographs.

As we reported in a previous newsletter, the photojournalist, David Morse, a long-time member of the Indybay collective, was arrested December 11, 2009 while covering the protest at the Chancellor’s house, despite repeatedly identifying himself as a journalist to the UCPD. Prior to his release on bail the next day, the UCPD obtained a search warrant to look at the photographs Morse had taken. In obtaining the search warrant, the UCPD did not inform the judge of Morse’s claims that he was a journalist. The charges against Morse, which included rioting and vandalism, were dropped soon thereafter.

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