The SPD Subpoenas Have Landed

KIRO TV has now posted the subpoena it just received for its May Day protest footage, and here's a .pdf of the document:

In addition to KIRO, the subpoena was also sent to KING 5, KOMO 4, KCPQ 13, the Seattle Times, and the SeattlePI.com.

Todd Mokhtari, news director for KIRO, tells me the SPD now says the commandment to appear at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning with "camera footage of the May Day protest(s)" was a mistake. The SPD, he says, has not provided KIRO with a new time to appear.

(Previously: What a journalism ethics expert says the local media should do now.)

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Eli Sanders

Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this, but he also once crashed his bike into a parked car while on his way to a staff meeting, never mind this, so… His website, which probably hasn't been updated in a while, is www.elisanders.net.

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