RPD withdraws suit over FOIA’d documents

Earlier this week the Richmond Police Department sued Mo Karn to retrieve documents she had previously received via a FOIA request.

The RTD reports:

The city of Richmond is ending its legal quest to recover police documents turned over to an anarchist group, which posted them on its website.

Police Chief Bryan T. Norwood said Monday night that he didn’t know that the city’s chief administrative officer, Byron Marshall, had decided to withdraw the legal action.

Norwood later said he had been involved in discussions over the past couple of days about how to proceed. His objective in filing the lawsuit was to get back the documents quickly, and city officials agreed that was not going to happen.

Michael Paul Williams also has an editorial up about this who situation.

Also, the documents in question — which are now part of the public domain — can be found over on the Wingnut’s site.