DOUGLAS TENNENBAUM v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division DOUGLAS TENNENBAUM, Case No. 23-cv-00592-LB

Plaintiff, ORDER DISMISSING CASE v. Re: ECF No.

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION In February 2019, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi died. Someone in the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) leaked a police report about the death to the press. The SFPD investigated the leak, determined that a reporter named Bryan Carmody sold copies of the report to other news outlets, obtained search warrants, and searched Mr. Carmody’s home, office, and devices. Based on evidence seized during the searches, the SFPD obtained a search warrant for the contents of Plaintiff Douglas Tennenbaum’s personal mobile phone in March and April 2019. Mr. Tennenbaum is an SFPD police officer and the defendants investigated him as the source of the leak. In August 2019, the state…