On Monday, Seattle Police Department subpoenas started flying around town, demanding that various local media outlets turn over May Day protest video and still pictures.

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On Tuesday, Assistant Seattle Police Chief Jim Pugel announced that his department was receiving "complete cooperation" on the video demand—even though that was demonstrably not the case.

What's happened since?

An update:

The Seattle Times received its subpoena yesterday, Executive Editor David Boardman said via e-mail. "We are in legal consultation at this point," he wrote. "We have not turned over any materials."

Over at the PI.com, the situation is less clear. The web site is owned by Hearst, and company spokesman Paul Luthringer's only comment so far has been: "I have no update for you Eli. Thanks."

As for the TV stations: KCPQ 13 is still reviewing the matter with its attorneys and hasn't turned over any video, assistant news director Erica Hill told me. KIRO 7 hasn't offered an update today, but last I heard the station was also reviewing the request with its attorneys, and hadn't turned over any video. KING 5 has turned over copies of video that it already aired, according to Executive News Director Mark Ginther, but its attorneys are still looking at the issue of whether to turn over un-aired and un-edited video. Similar for KOMO 4, where news director Holly Gauntt told me this afternoon:

We did receive the subpoena, and we have provided the video that we aired. But we are not giving them raw video. The shield law protects us from having to do that, and we are going to avail ourselves of that.

Gauntt, who also serves as vice president for news at KOMO parent company Fisher Communications, noted an irony to the current situation, given that KOMO has been trying for a long time to get the police to turn over dash cam video—a matter that's already led KOMO and the SPD into King County Superior Court and could soon take them to the Washington State Supreme Court.

"There is a bit of an irony," Gauntt said. "They want video from me, and I had to file a lawsuit to get video from them.”

The background, according to Gauntt:

We filed a lawsuit because we had used the Freedom of Information Act several times to try to get dash cam video from police cruisers. In light of all the police issues they’ve had with brutality, it seemed like a logical request from us—because we knew there were other incidents. But they stonewalled us, and stonewalled us, and stonewalled us, for two years. So we finally filed a lawsuit.

A month ago, King County Superior Court Judge Jim Rogers ruled that the police can keep dash cam video for up to three years after an incident before turning it over. The problem: police retention policies call for the destruction of dash cam video at three years.

All of which is causing KOMO to make plans for asking the Washington State Supreme Court to intervene.

“I’m really frustrated by it," Gauntt said of the current situation. "I don’t think it’s fair that the SPD can come and use our video to show that their officers were in the right, or that others did something wrong, but they don’t afford the public the same opportunity.”

The SPD did not respond to a request for comment.