Billboard battle: L.A. Weekly 1, Clearchannel & City 0
Posted By Mack Reed On April 2, 2008 @ 12:26 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled
If L.A. Weekly editor Jill Stewart is gloating today [1], it’s for good reason:
Few court rulings over a Freedom of Information Act request ever come down tasting this sweet:
Apparently, when Weekly staffer Christine Pelisek asked the L.A. Dep’t. of Building and Safety to cough up a list of all 11,000 legal and illegal billboards [1] in L.A., the city balked. And then the bureaucrats snitched to billboard monster ClearChannel [2], Stewart blogs.
ClearChannel sued to block the request, saying it would reveal “proprietary information.”
But this morning, a Superior Court judge ruled that list is public information, since it comes through a public permitting process – and ordered the city to deliver the list by Friday.
Just one question: What do the Building Dept. bureaucrats have to gain by blocking release of that list? Can’t wait to read the continuing coverage. This oughta be good.
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- Santa Monica Yuppie Scum Death Battle Overflows onto New York Times Front Page [3]
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- Prop 8 battle will continue into spring [5]
- LA City Budget Survey: Share your voice! [6]
- Homework results: Which city campaigns received donations from L.A.’s largest tax debtors? [7]
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[1] gloating today: http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/spot-news/clear-channel-messed-with-la-w/
[2] ClearChannel: http://clearchannel.com
[3] Santa Monica Yuppie Scum Death Battle Overflows onto New York Times Front Page: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/11/25/santa-monica-yuppie-scum-death-battle-overflows-onto-new-york-times-front-page/
[4] Century City Traffic Snarling; Culprit: Suspicious Package: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/07/15/century-city-traffic-snarling/
[5] Prop 8 battle will continue into spring: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/11/26/prop-8-battle-will-continue-into-spring/
[6] LA City Budget Survey: Share your voice!: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/12/13/la-city-budget-survey-share-your-voice/
[7] Homework results: Which city campaigns received donations from L.A.’s largest tax debtors?: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/03/02/homework-results-which-city-campaigns-received-donations-from-las-largest-tax-debtors/
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