San Francisco officials have agreed to pay $369,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a journalist whose home and office were illegally searched by police. Cops were trying the find the confidential source who leaked the results of an investigation into the death of the city’s former public defender to Bryan Carmody. California’s shield law protects journalists from such searches.
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