{"id":227031,"date":"2010-01-25T13:52:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5fcf53ef0120a80bfeb9970b"},"modified":"2010-01-25T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:52:32","slug":"lapd-to-receive-freedom-of-information-award-from-radio-and-television-news-association-of-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227031","title":{"rendered":"LAPD to Receive Freedom of Information Award from Radio and Television News Association of Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Los Angeles:<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\nLater this evening, on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Department<br \/>\n(LAPD) Media Relations Section, Chief Charlie Beck will accept the<br \/>\nFreedom of Information Award from the Radio and Television News<br \/>\nAssociation of Southern California (RTNA) at the 60th Annual Golden<br \/>\nMike Awards Dinner to be held at the Hilton Universal City.\u00a0 LAPD is<br \/>\nonly the second recipient of the award in RTNA\u2019s history and the<br \/>\nfirst-ever law enforcement organization.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe are at a place in our history when the leadership at every level of<br \/>\nthe LAPD really understands how important it is to work with the<br \/>\nmedia,\u201d said Chief Beck. \u201cThe media has an immense responsibility to<br \/>\ninform and educate people, and we will continue giving them the access<br \/>\nthey need to do the job.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t be more proud of our Media<br \/>\nRelations Section personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nRTNA President Rebecca Nieto talked about the significance of the award<br \/>\nand why LAPD was selected to receive it. &quot;The Freedom of Information<br \/>\nAward is given to individuals and organizations on special occasions<br \/>\nwho have demonstrated exceptional efforts with broadcast reporters to<br \/>\npromote transparency and facilitate news coverage related to their<br \/>\norganizations,&quot; she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen remarkable improvement in<br \/>\ncommunication between LAPD and broadcast reporters in the last few<br \/>\nyears.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\nEstablished in 1946, the RTNA\u2019s core mission is to champion the First<br \/>\nAmendment rights of the free press in an effort to improve lines of<br \/>\ncommunication between news media personnel, law enforcement<br \/>\norganizations and other government agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles:\u00a0 Later this evening, on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Media Relations Section, Chief Charlie Beck will accept the Freedom of Information Award from the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California (RTNA) at the 60th Annual Golden Mike Awards Dinner to be held at the Hilton Universal City.\u00a0 LAPD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}