Kqed, Inc. v. Thomas L. Houchins, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Alameda County

PREGERSON, District Judge:

This is an appeal from the trial court’s issuance of a preliminary injunction restraining appellant, the Sheriff of Alameda County, California, from depriving appellees of their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by “excluding as a matter of general policy . . . responsible representatives of the news media from the Alameda County Jail facilities at Santa Rita, including the Greystone portion thereof. . . .1 To allow “full and accurate coverage” of jail conditions, the preliminary injunction requires that the reporters be given access to Santa Rita “at reasonable…