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It’s a sad fact of life that when people and wild animals collide, the animals usually lose. There are reasons for that, good ones. I understand that. What I don’t understand, what I’ll never understand, and will continue to rail against, is when government treats us mere citizens as if we don’t have any rights. In the case of the recent bear attack in the Piute mountains, I’m having a big problem with the fact that the Department of Fish and Game has withheld key information about the attack. They had the victim’s statement last week describing the attack, including a description of the bear, but refused to release it. “It’s an ongoing investigation,” I was first told by Fish and Game public information officer Steve Martarnao in the Sacramento office. The game wardens who were tracking the bear are just like cops, he said. Really? Such investigatory documents typically are withheld under a specific exemption to the...
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