aren't arrests PUBLIC RECORDS? wouldn't we have had the information on mel gibson's arrest any damn way? i guess the issue is the arresting officer james mee, being made to TAKE OUT ALL THE 'SHITE' gibson said about 'the jews' from his report. that never should have happened. the world should have (and actually did) find out how ugly mel gibson's words were. i for one don't think gibson feels ANY differently sober (about 'the jews') than he does when he's NOT sober. you can support him if you want, i do not wish to. you can forget mel gibson said all of those evil and ugly things. i am NOT going to forget
for ONCE i am happy a 'gossip site' got the straight scoop on a celebrity. it is in no way shape or form RIGHT for DE HIGH SHERIFF to tell his deputy to alter an arrest report on a celebrity ESPECIALLY if the celebrity is an ASSHOLE
L.A. sheriff, TMZ wage showdown over records
First Amendment cited by gossip site during inquiry of Mel Gibson's '06 arrest
Three years after Mel Gibson was arrested during a drunken, anti-Semitic tirade, Los Angeles authorities filed a search warrant seeking bank records attempting to trace cash from the Web site that broke the story: TMZ.
News of that warrant, and a second one issued earlier, provides a chilling postscript to the Gibson saga as investigators tried to uncover who leaked incriminating information to the gossip Web site. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office used the earlier warrant to obtain the cellphone records of TMZ's founder, Harvey Levin.........
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The search warrants violate the federal Privacy Protection Act of 1980, Dalglish said. That law, she said, "makes it illegal to execute a search warrant of newsgathering material unless you are investigating the reporter himself or herself for breaking the law, not in a leak investigation."
The Los Angeles district attorney decided earlier this month not to bring charges against Mee, who was suspected of leaking the Gibson documents to TMZ, on grounds that the charge could not be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. According to the memo, based on information obtained from AT&T California, two calls were made from Mee's home to Levin hours after Gibson was arrested in Malibu. Levin called Mee's home eight more times in the two days after Gibson's arrest. The Los Angeles Times was the first to report the memo and the phone records warrant...........
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