Officer Melissa Kallstrom v. City of Columbus

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the automatic disclosure of the officers’ personal information was not drawn narrowly enough to serve the State’s interest in ensuring accountable governance
• holding that the automatic disclosure of the officers’ personal information was not drawn narrowly enough to serve the State’s interest in ensuring accountable governance
• holding that municipal defendants could be liable for harm resulting from “affirmatively releasing” undercover officers’ names and addresses, despite promising they would be “held in strict confidence”
• holding that officers have a fundamental constitutional interest in preventing release of personal information contained in their personnel files where such disclosure creates a substantial risk of serious bodily harm
• holding that Due Process Clause guards against “release of [law enforcement] officers’ addresses[ and] phone numbers . . . [if] likely to result in a substantial risk to their personal security”
• holding a city's policy of freely releasing information from undercover officers' personnel files created a constitutionally cognizable special danger

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).