FILE - In this May 21, 2019, file photo, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott speaks during a news conference in San Francisco. The union representing San Francisco police officers is calling for its chief to resign over his handling of the police raid of a freelance journalist's home and office. Chief Scott acknowledged Friday, May 24, that the searches were probably illegal and apologized for the way his department handled the investigation into who leaked a confidential police report to Bryan Carmody. The police union fired back on Saturday, May 25, saying Scott ordered the investigation, knew Carmody was a journalist and deceived the sergeant who wrote the search warrant. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The union representing San Francisco police officers demanded Saturday that its chief resign, accusing him of blaming officers for raids that he ordered to determine who leaked a police report to a freelance journalist. Chief William Scott acknowledged Friday that the searches...
San Francisco’s police chief is trying to explain the May 10 raids of a journalist’s home and office that First Amendment advocates have called illegal.
San Francisco police officials will return the files, electronics and other materials that cops seized from a freelance journalist in a controversial raid on his home, an attorney for the department said on Tuesday.
The debate over a police raid of a San Francisco freelance journalist's home in the wake of a leaked police report has taken some new political twists.
San Francisco Police Chief William Scott defended the department's raid of a freelance journalist's home last week under intense questioning from the city's police commission on Wednesday.