Erick Hoxey et al v. County of Los Angeles et al

Filing 37

ORDER by Magistrate Judge Paul L. Abrams ON STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER GOVERNING DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL PERSONNEL AND OTHER RECORDS 36 . **Note Changes Made By the Court.** (ch)

1 LAURA E. INLOW, SB# 130584 E-Mail: [e-mail] 2 LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP 221 North Figueroa Street, Suite 1200 3 Los Angeles, California 90012 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] 5 Attorneys for Defendants, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, SAMUEL OROZCO, SCOTT GILES, ROBERT DEAN, SARANYA 6 KLINKALONG, JAETON WILSON, IGNACIO GARCIA, FERNANDO GONZALEZ, ANTHONY WILLIS, JOHN WERNER 7 AND CONNIE DELGADO 8 9 10 ) 11 ERICK HOXEY, an individual, and ) SHATWAN SMITH, an individual, ) 12 ) Plaintiffs, ) 13 v. ) ) 14 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, a ) ) 15 governmental entity; SAMUEL OROZCO, an individual; SCOTT ) 16 GILES, an individual; ROBERT DEAN, ) an individual; SARANYA ) 17 KLINKALONG, an individual; JAETON ) WILSON, an individual; IGNACIO ) 18 GARCIA, an individual; FERNANDO ) GONZALEZ, an individual; ANTHONY ) ) 19 WILLIS, an individual; JOHN WERNER, an individual; CONNIE ) 20 DELGADO, an individual, and DOES 1 ) to 10, ) ) 21 Defendants. ) ) 22 23 24 25 Pursuant to stipulation by the parties, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 1. Under no circumstances shall confidential information, including but not CASE NO. CV09-1372 DSF (PLAx)
Action Filed: February 26, 2009 Judge: Honorable Dale S. Fischer Courtroom 840 - ROYBAL Trial Date: May 4, 2010

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, WESTERN DIVISION

NOTE CHANGES MADE BY THE COURT
ORDER ON STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER GOVERNING DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL PERSONNEL AND OTHER RECORDS

26 limited to financial information and information which may be contained in a peace 27 officer's personnel file, be used in any proceeding other than the instant case or be 28 disseminated, in any form, except by court order.
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Under no circumstances shall confidential information either orally, or by

2 written form, be inputted into any computer program or data base or listed manually 3 in any manual, notebook or other listing as it pertains to law enforcement personnel. 4 This does not apply to any computer program or case file maintained specifically as 5 to this civil action. 6 8 9 10 11 13 15 4. 3. Disclosure of confidential information shall be limited to the personnel a) b) c) d) e) Counsel for any party to this action; Staff personnel employed by counsel for any party; The court and its personnel; Experts or consultants retained to work on this case by counsel for Investigators retained by counsel for any party to this case as 7 and/or classification of persons listed below:

12 any party; and 14 indicated above. Plaintiffs' counsel shall not provide to the plaintiffs, either orally or in 16 writing, the addresses and telephone numbers the persons identified within the 17 confidential information, but may discuss the information obtained from any 18 investigation conducted with complainants or witnesses. 19 5. Counsel for any party to this action shall advise those individuals to whom 20 disclosure of confidential information is to be made of the contents of this protective 21 order, and such counsel shall obtain the consent of each individual that he or she will 22 be bound by this protective order. In the event such individual does not consent to be 23 bound by this protective order, no disclosure of confidential information will be made 24 to such individual. 25 6. Any counsel, expert, consultant or investigator retained by counsel for any 26 party to this case shall not refer to confidential information in any other court 27 proceeding subject to further order of this court. 28 / / /
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This protective order, and the obligations of all persons thereunder,

2 including those relating to the disclosure and use of confidential information, shall 3 survive the final termination of this case, whether such termination is by settlement, 4 judgment, dismissal, appeal or otherwise, until further order of the court. 5 8. Nothing in this protective order is intended to prevent officials or 6 employees of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, individual deputy sheriffs, 7 or other authorized individuals, from having access to the confidential information to 8 which they would have had access in the normal course of their duties. 9 10 DATED: January 19, 2010 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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/s/ - Paul L. Abrams Paul L. Abrams United States Magistrate Judge

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