Section § 1070

Explanation

这项法律保护记者,包括为报纸、杂志和广播媒体工作的记者,使其免于被迫透露消息来源或为新闻目的收集的任何未发表信息。它适用于所有曾为这些媒体机构工作的人,并防止他们因不披露此类信息而被裁定藐视法庭或机构。“未发表信息”被定义为任何未向公众分享的材料,例如笔记、录音或照片,即使部分相关信息已经发表。

(a)CA 证据法 Code § 1070(a) A publisher, editor, reporter, or other person connected with or employed upon a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication, or by a press association or wire service, or any person who has been so connected or employed, cannot be adjudged in contempt by a judicial, legislative, administrative body, or any other body having the power to issue subpoenas, for refusing to disclose, in any proceeding as defined in Section 901, the source of any information procured while so connected or employed for publication in a newspaper, magazine or other periodical publication, or for refusing to disclose any unpublished information obtained or prepared in gathering, receiving or processing of information for communication to the public.
(b)CA 证据法 Code § 1070(b) Nor can a radio or television news reporter or other person connected with or employed by a radio or television station, or any person who has been so connected or employed, be so adjudged in contempt for refusing to disclose the source of any information procured while so connected or employed for news or news commentary purposes on radio or television, or for refusing to disclose any unpublished information obtained or prepared in gathering, receiving or processing of information for communication to the public.
(c)CA 证据法 Code § 1070(c) As used in this section, “unpublished information” includes information not disseminated to the public by the person from whom disclosure is sought, whether or not related information has been disseminated and includes, but is not limited to, all notes, outtakes, photographs, tapes or other data of whatever sort not itself disseminated to the public through a medium of communication, whether or not published information based upon or related to such material has been disseminated.