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The Sacramento County Family Court News & Blog publishes exclusive, original content news reporting, aggregated news, analysis, opinion and satire. For the most part, Brownie handles the news, Pelican provides analysis, and RoadDog does opinion and satire. We are very interested in hearing from court users, administrators, judges and attorneys. All communications are held in strict confidence and protected by the reporters’ privilege and the California Shield Law. See Cal. Const. article I section 2(b) and Cal. Evidence Code section 1070 [pdf]. Much of our original news content comes from confidential government and private sector sources.

Using the applicable category and tags at the end of each post, all content is identified as news, analysis, opinion or satire. We observe the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics and the Ethics in Journalism Policy of the New York Times. We use confidential news sources observing the New York Times Confidential News Sources Policy.

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