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| Subject: OZschwitz: Secretive crime agency backs off journalists Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:13 am | |
| THE state's most secretive crime-fighting agency, the NSW Crime Commission, has dropped its attempt to seize the mobile phones, SIM cards and telephone records of two Herald journalists in its continuing dispute with the police corruption watchdog.
The backdown comes after the election of the new Coalition government and the appointment of a new Police Minister, Michael Gallacher, who oversees the Crime Commission.
Subpoenas were issued last month not just to the two journalists, Linton Besser and Dylan Welch, but also to Fairfax Media, publisher of the Herald. The subpoenas, which demanded that all records of contacts between its journalists and the Police Integrity Commission be handed over, provoked outrage among civil libertarians and legal groups.
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