by Bob Walsh
William Scott, Chief of Police in the City and County of San Francisco, has backed away from his previous statements about the appropriateness of a raid on a journalist in an attempt to identify a leaker at the SFPD.
Scott said that "I'm sorry this happened" and allowed that it was probably an illegal search.
The search warrant(s) are still under seal so it is unknown if the officers asking for the warrant bothered to tell the judge that the suspect, Bryan Carmody, was in fact a journalist.
SF Mayor, London Breed, has requested an "independent probe" of the matter.
Various First Amendment groups are clamoring for the warrants to be unsealed. CA law protects journalists and SCOTUS has said that journalists are free to print newsworthy things that come their way, even if they know them to be stolen or improperly obtained.
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