NAACP of San Jose/ Silicon Valley v. City Of San Jose

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NAACP OF SAN JOSE/ SILICON VALLEY, et al., Case No. 21-cv-01705-PJH 6 Plaintiffs, ORDER RE DISCOVERY LETTER v. BRIEF 8 CITY OF SAN JOSE, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 56 9 Defendants.

12 Before the court is the parties’ joint letter re defendant’s responses to plaintiffs’ 13 written discovery. See Dkt. 56. The parties raise six disputes for the court’s resolution. 14 The court addresses each one in turn. 15 Dispute 1: The parties dispute whether defendant is obligated to produce 16 metadata and “audit logs” associated with police body-worn camera videos. Plaintiffs 17 have requested all metadata, which includes geolocation information for the videos, 18 which plaintiffs argue “will allow [them] to narrow down relevant videos.” Dkt. 56 at 1. 19 Plaintiffs also argue that the metadata includes information on whether a video was 20 edited, which is commonly used in criminal cases to provide “digital proof that the footage 21 had not been altered.” Id. 22 Defendant argues that it…