Courthouse News Service’s challenge to a Ventura County, California, policy delaying the public availability of court complaints had mixed success at the Ninth Circuit on Friday.
Ventura County’s policy to deny public access to complaints until they were comprehensively processed was unconstitutional, but changing the process to only require complaints to be scanned before public release made it constitutional.
From 2010 to 2014, Ventura County had a seven-step procedure followed by “an additional layer of quality control review” for processing new civil complaints that sometimes took several days. The county required all the steps to be completed before complaints were ...
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