San Diego City Attorney's request for data pulled

SAN DIEGO CITY ATTORNEY'S REQUEST FOR DATA PULLED
[SOURCE: San Diego Union Tribune, AUTHOR: Alex Roth]
San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre has withdrawn a public-records request asking public television station KPBS to give him information about its news-programming decisions, certain correspondence with the mayor's office and details about its relationship with Copley Press. Aguirre made the decision after speaking with a First Amendment expert who advised him that his requests were inappropriate for a government official. His decision came on the day The San Diego Union-Tribune, which is owned by Copley Press, ran a story about his efforts to obtain KPBS's internal e-mails, financial statements and other documents. Aguirre urged members of the public to file their own public-records requests with KPBS, whose television station is a PBS affiliate and whose radio station is an affiliate of National Public Radio. He said the public needs to know why the station canceled its public-affairs TV show “Full Focus."
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