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Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca wants to make it more difficult for the press to report on the celebrities in his custody by making it a crime for law enforcement or court employees to profit by releasing confidential information gathered in criminal investigations or unauthorized photographs of people in custody. While no photos of star inmate Paris Hilton have surfaced, a deputy’s account of Mel Gibson’s profanity-laden tirade as he was being arrested in Malibu was leaked. And recently a cell phone video of the rapper known as The Game showing him in an unflattering light as he was held in a jail cell after being arrested appeared on blog TMZ without having gone though official channels or the procedures set forth in the Public Records Act.

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