Susan E. Seager

1st Amend lawyer. Adjunct Prof., UC Irvine Law School, Press Freedom Project. Putting the Bite Back into the Public Records Act. [email protected]

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

@LeahLitman

[Molly Morrison @mollyhannahm]

i am absolutely obsessed with this steve kerr tidbit and need the more dedicated swifties to get on this ASAP

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

@FilmThePoliceLA This is illegal.

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

It’s not a controversy. It’s illegal. It violates the federal Privacy Protection Act of 1980, which bans search warrants of newsrooms, reporters’ computers, notebooks, and other unpublished information.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

A huge controversy of the Obama DOJ was when it obtained the phone records of Fox's James Rosen, then two AP reporters, to find out who was leaking classified docs.

The Trump FBI just searched the home of a WashPost reporter with the same motive:

https://t.co/iz2e1hziju

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

@JasonLeopold Can you do a FOIA now on the Epstein Files to get a court to pierce the exemptions?

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

@innercitypress @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @sdnylive @AmberWoods100 @intelligencer @NYMag @thedailybeast @TND @voxmedia @artnet What is the “censorship” you mention?

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.

I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: https://t.co/Q3F1sZUEbE

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

“The free press has the rights it does, not for itself, but for us. Much of the free press has voluntarily surrendered, not its right, but our right, your right, to a free press.” Yale Access & Accountability Conference 2025.

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. https://t.co/UsCzUnJqPL via @eff

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

What will @BobShrum do when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

What will @USCGouldLaw when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?

[Memo Torres 🌮 @el_tragon_de_LA]

I used to be able to keep these DAILY MEMOs to under 3 minutes, the last couple videos have been impossible to. ICE is escalating in Los Angeles, just look at the article version with every incident highlighted. This is only what we could confirm, only what we know of. @LATACO

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

What will @USCAnnenberg do when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

What will @USCGouldLaw when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

What will @BobShrum do when @USC signs Trump’s fascist “compact” barring “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events” except where “external events have a direct impact” on USC?

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

@USC @USCLawDean @USCDornsife @USCPressroom @USCAnnenberg @USCANN @USCHSSC
USC must say “NO!” to this illegal Trump “Compact!” It will be government censorship of ALL USC employees!

Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion https://t.co/srm0Lg9axq via @NYTOpinion

[UC Berkeley Law @BerkeleyLaw]

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky: Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion https://t.co/Xu207Q5Mjs #Opinion via @NYTOpinion

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York Times. ⁦⁩Hey ⁦⁦@Disney⁩ and Bob Iger: why not take a cue from the brave ⁦@nytimes⁩ and fight Trump instead of bowing down to him every time? https://t.co/0RvoVQfsS2

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

@CAgovernor HEY GUV WHY IS PAROLE BOARD ONLY ALLOWING ONE REPORTER TO COVER MENENDEZ PAROLE HEARING? WHY NOT RELEASE RECORDING OF HEARING RIGHT AFTER HEARING? Signed, a press lawyer.

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

Israel has killed (mostly murdered) 269 journalists since Oct. 2023.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

In Anas al-Sharif’s final broadcast, he showed children starving in Gaza.

Hours later, Israel killed him in a targeted airstrike on press tents, along with 5 other journalists.

Israel has killed at least 269 journalists in Gaza since October 2023.

[Susan E. Seager @SusanESeager]

What “charm”?