>>5324808 Follow-up report on yesterday’s Houston rooftop shooting
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I wonder how close 'acquaintances' Smollet and Lemmon are?
A free-speech group sued California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Thursday over his refusal to release police misconduct records under a new state law.
The First Amendment Coalition, an organization that promotes open government and First Amendment rights, filed a lawsuit against Becerra alleging the California Department of Justice rejected a Jan. 4 records request under the transparency law, according to an FAC news release.
“As the highest law enforcement officer in the state, the Attorney General has an obligation to not only comply with the California Public Records Act, but to send the right message about transparency to police departments across the state,” FAC Executive Director David Snyder said in the release. “Unfortunately, the Attorney General has done neither. By denying public access to these crucial files, he has given a green light to other departments to disregard the new law.”
KQED reported earlier this month that the attorney general’s office rejected a freelance reporter’s records request, saying that the law did not apply to records dating before Jan. 1, when SB 1421 took effect. Becerra’s office said last week it would not issue records about law enforcement officers it employs until the matter is decided by the courts.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article226293420.html#storylink=cpy
Affidavit: Kids found in 'filthy' home, where sink water 'smelled like a dead animal'
DALLAS — A Dallas man has been arrested on charges of child endangerment after police found his four young children living inside their "filthy" apartment, where water in the sink "smelled like a dead animal" and toilets appeared to not have been flushed in weeks, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Police also found a malnourished puppy locked in a closet.
Robert Preston, 31, was arrested on Sunday, according to the affidavit. The children inside his South Dallas apartment were ages 5 and 2, along with two 3-year-old twins.
Officers had responded on Saturday evening to the 4700 block of Meadow Street, where witness had found a small child running around the road inside of the Rosemont apartment complex.
Preston had walked up and asked the officer if they had found his child, the affidavit said.
Preston told the officer that he had walked to the store and was gone for about 10-15 minutes. The officer went to Preston's apartment and found the door unlocked and found three other children inside.
There was no furniture in the home, and the floor was "filthy, unkept, and" there were bottles of alcohol left open on the floor and "the entire apartment reeked of feces," the affidavit said.
The officer also found the oven on, and Preston said he had left it on while we went to the store, according to the affidavit.
When the officer found the dog locked in the closet, "the children reacted to the dog as if they had never seen it," the affidavit said.
The children also called each other "'Robert,' because the did not know their own names,'" the affidavit said.
Preston faces four charges of abandonment/endangerment of a child with intent to return. He also had a warrant out for his arrest for a probation violation in an aggravated robbery case.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/affidavit-kids-found-in-filthy-home-where-sink-water-smelled-like-a-dead-animal/287-ed218215-1b62-496b-82a5-9ba057aac497