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 December 29, 2020
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"I would think that anyone from second grade to 80 years old would look at this say [preserving documents that may be found] makes sense."
 
I had the pleasure of talking with This Week in Virginia host David Bailey earlier this month about the challenges of COVID and public meetings, redaction, closed meetings, the virtual legislature and more. Thanks, David! -- M.R.
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A Charlottesville judge on Monday ordered the city to neither destroy nor delete any communications to and from a former city manager and a former police chief regarding the Aug. 12, 2017 Unite the Right rally until the merits of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit can be tried in court. Circuit Court Judge Richard E. Moore said he wants the city to preserve any communications that may still exist until the lawsuit, filed by Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler, comes for trial or is dismissed. “If any of these documents covered in [Kessler’s] information request do exist, if in the process any of them are discovered, [the city] is not to delete, destroy or otherwise conceal them,” Moore said. “I do not want anything that now exists, even if we don’t know that it exists, I don’t want it to be deleted.” “I would think that anyone from second grade to 80 years old would look at this say [preserving documents that may be found] makes sense. Good deal,” Moore said. “If there’s something that’s been deleted in the past, there’s nothing we can do. But if they do find something, we shouldn’t do anything to make less available.”
The Daily Progress

Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Amy Ashworth has found the police department’s use of deadly force in the Dec. 10 shooting of a 79-year-old Dumfries-area man as “both justified and reasonable.” The Prince William County Police Department on Monday morning released the names of the officers involved and a detailed timeline of what happened that night.
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