1 Nathan A. Oyster (SBN 225307) E-mail: [email protected] 2 Caylin W. Jones (SBN 327829) E-mail: [email protected] 3 Sydney M. Gronroos (SBN 345644) E-mail: [email protected] 4 BURKE, WILLIAMS & SORENSEN, LLP 444 South Flower Street, 40th Floor 5 Los Angeles, California 90071-2942 Tel: 213.236.0600 Fax: 213.236.2700 6 Attorneys for Defendants 7 COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE (also sued as RIVERSIDE SHERIFF’S 8 DEPARTMENT), SHERIFF CHAD BIANCO, DEPUTY BAKER, DEPUTY 9 MATHIS, and DEPUTY SIDIQUI

10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 11 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 12 13 JORGE MORALES, JR., Case No. 5:25-cv-1096-SP

14 Plaintiff, STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

15 v. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym 16 COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE, a public entity; RIVERSIDE SHERIFF’S 17 DEPARTMENT; SHERIFF CHAD BIANCO, in his individual and official 18 capacities; DEPUTY BAKER; DEPUTY MATHIS; DEPUTY 19 SIDIQUI; and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive, 20 Defendants. 21

22 1. A. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 23 Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, 24 proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public 25 disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may 26 be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to 27 enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this 1 discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends 2 only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment 3 under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in 4 Section 12.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to 5 file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the 6 procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a party 7 seeks permission from the court to file material under seal. 8 B. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT 9 This action involves the County of Riverside and members of the Riverside 10 County Sheriff’s Department. Plaintiff is seeking materials and information that 11 Defendant County of Riverside maintains as confidential, such as jail videos that 12 may depict non-party inmates, personnel files of the law enforcement officers 13 involved in this incident, Internal Affairs materials and information, video 14 recordings, audio recordings, photographs, Force Investigation Division materials 15 and information and other administrative materials and information currently in the 16 possession of the Defendant County of Riverside and which the Defendants believes 17 need special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other 18 than prosecuting this litigation. 19 This action is likely to involve medical records, sensitive and confidential 20 documents related to the Plaintiff, documents containing private information from 21 third parties, police investigation procedures and tactics, and other confidential and 22 private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use 23 for any purpose other than prosecution of this action is warranted. Such confidential 24 and proprietary materials and information consist of, among other things, 25 confidential personal information of non-parties, private medical and autopsy 26 records, internal police reviews and procedures, and other confidential and sensitive 27 information otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or which may be 1 court rules, case decisions, or common law. Defendants contend that there is good 2 cause for a protective order to maintain the confidentiality of peace officer personnel 3 records. They emphasize that releasing these records, which include internal 4 analyses and legal communications, could hinder law enforcement investigations. 5 Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt 6 resolution of disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately 7 protect information the parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the 8 parties are permitted reasonable necessary uses of such material in preparation for 9 and in the conduct of trial, to address their handling at the end of the litigation, and 10 serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such information is justified in this 11 matter. It is the intent of the parties that information will not be designated as 12 confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated without a good 13 faith belief that it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and 14 there is good cause why it should not be part of the public record of this case. 15 2. DEFINITIONS 16 2.1 Action: this pending federal lawsuit, Jorge Morales, Jr. v. County of 17 Riverside, et al., 5:25-cv-1096 SP. 18 2.2 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation 19 of information or items under this Order. 20 2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of 21 how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for 22 protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in 23 the Good Cause Statement. 24 2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as 25 their support staff). 26 2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 27 items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 1 2.6 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless 2 of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, 3 among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or 4 generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter. 5 2.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 6 pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as 7 an expert witness or as a consultant in this Action. 8 2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action. 9 House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside 10 counsel. 11 2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 12 other legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 13 2.10 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party 14 to this Action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and have 15 appeared in this Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which 16 has appeared on behalf of that party, and includes support staff. 17 2.11 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors, 18 employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their 19 support staffs). 20 2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 21 Discovery Material in this Action. 22 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 23 services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or 24 demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) 25 and their employees and subcontractors. 26 2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 27 designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 1 from a Producing Party. 2 3. SCOPE 3 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 4 Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or 5 extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or 6 compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or 7 presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 8 Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders of the 9 trial judge. This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial. 10 4. DURATION 11 Once a case proceeds to trial, all of the information that was designated as 12 confidential or maintained pursuant to this protective order becomes public and will 13 be presumptively available to all members of the public, including the press, unless 14 compelling reasons supported by specific factual findings to proceed otherwise are 15 made to the trial judge in advance of the trial. See Kamakana v. City and County of 16 Honolulu,

, 1180-81 (9th Cir. 2006) (distinguishing “good cause” 17 showing for sealing documents produced in discovery from “compelling reasons” 18 standard when merits-related documents are part of court record). Accordingly, the 19 terms of this protective order do not extend beyond the commencement of the trial. 20 Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations 21 imposed by this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees 22 otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be 23 deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this Action, with 24 or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the completion and 25 exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this Action, 26 including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time 27 pursuant to applicable law. 1 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 2 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. 3 Each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection 4 under this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material 5 that qualifies under the appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate 6 for protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written 7 communications that qualify so that other portions of the material, documents, 8 items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept 9 unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. 10 Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations 11 that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper 12 purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber the case development process or to impose 13 unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Designating 14 Party to sanctions. 15 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it 16 designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must 17 promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the inapplicable designation. 18 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 19 this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise 20 stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection 21 under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 22 produced. 23 Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 24 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic 25 documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial 26 proceedings), that the Producing Party affix at a minimum, the legend 27 “CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter “CONFIDENTIAL legend”), to each page that 1 qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected 2 portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). 3 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for inspection 4 need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated 5 which documents it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and 6 before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be 7 deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the 8 documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which 9 documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before 10 producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the 11 “CONFIDENTIAL legend” to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a 12 portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing 13 Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate 14 markings in the margins). 15 (b) for testimony given in depositions that the Designating Party 16 identify the Disclosure or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the 17 deposition all protected testimony. 18 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary 19 and for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place 20 on the exterior of the container or containers in which the information is stored the 21 legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information 22 warrants protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the 23 protected portion(s). 24 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent 25 failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive 26 the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. 27 Upon timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable 1 Order. 2 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 3 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a 4 designation of confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s 5 Scheduling Order. 6 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute 7 resolution process under Local Rule 37.1 et seq. 8 6.3 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on 9 the Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper 10 purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other 11 parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating 12 Party has waived or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, all parties shall 13 continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is 14 entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the Court rules on the 15 challenge. 16 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 17 7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is 18 disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this 19 Action only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this Action. Such 20 Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the 21 conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been terminated, a 22 Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL 23 DISPOSITION). 24 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a 25 location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons 26 authorized under this Order. 27 7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless 1 Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated 2 “CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 3 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, 4 as well as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably 5 necessary to disclose the information for this Action; 6 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) 7 of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action; 8 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to 9 whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the 10 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 11 (d) the court and its personnel; 12 (e) court reporters and their staff; 13 (f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and 14 Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action 15 and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit 16 A); 17 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information 18 or a custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information; 19 (h) during their depositions, witnesses ,and attorneys for witnesses, 20 in the Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing 21 party requests that the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit 1 hereto; and (2) 22 they will not be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign the 23 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise 24 agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed 25 deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material may 26 be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except 27 as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and 1 personnel, mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement 2 discussions. 3 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED 4 IN OTHER LITIGATION 5 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation 6 that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action as 7 “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must: 8 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such 9 notification shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order; 10 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or 11 order to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the 12 subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include 13 a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and 14 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be 15 pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 16 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with 17 the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this 18 action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the 19 subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s 20 permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking 21 protection in that court of its confidential material and nothing in these provisions 22 should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this Action 23 to disobey a lawful directive from another court. 24 9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE 25 PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION 26 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced 27 by a Non-Party in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such 1 by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions 2 should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 3 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, 4 to produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is 5 subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s 6 confidential information, then the Party shall: 7 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the 8 Non-Party that some or all of the information requested is subject to a 9 confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party; 10 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the 11 Stipulated Protective Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a 12 reasonably specific description of the information requested; and 13 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by 14 the Non-Party, if requested. 15 (c) If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this court 16 within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving 17 Party may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the 18 discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving 19 Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control that is subject to 20 the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the 21 court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and 22 expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 23 10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 24 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 25 Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this 26 Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in 27 writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts 1 persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, 2 and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and 3 Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 4 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 5 PROTECTED MATERIAL 6 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain 7 inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, 8 the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil 9 Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure 10 may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production without 11 prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar 12 as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a communication or 13 information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, the 14 parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order submitted 15 to the court. 16 12. MISCELLANEOUS 17 12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any 18 person to seek its modification by the Court in the future. 19 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this 20 Protective Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to 21 disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this 22 Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any 23 ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective Order. 24 12.3 Filing Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any 25 Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. Protected Material may 26 only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the 27 specific Protected Material at issue. If a Party's request to file Protected Material 1 in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court. 2 13. FINAL DISPOSITION 3 After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in paragraph 4, within 60 4 days of a written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return 5 all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in 6 this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, 7 summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 8 Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving 9 Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same 10 person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies 11 (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or 12 destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, 13 abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any 14 of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to 15 retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing 16 transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert 17 reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such 18 materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or 19 constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in 20 Section 4 (DURATION). 21 / / / 22 / / / 23 / / / 24 / / / 25 / / / 26 / / / 27 / / / 1} }14. VIOLATION 2 Any violation of this Order may be punished by any and all appropriate 3 || measures including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary 4 || sanctions. 5 6 || IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 7||DATED: June 25, 2025 8 9 /s/Nicole E. Hoikka 10 Steven C. Glickman Nicole E. Hoikka 11 || Attorneys for Plaintiff 2 JORGE MORALES, JR. 13 || DATED: June 25, 2025 14 15 /s/ Nathan Oyster 16 Nathan A. Oyster Caylin W. Jones 17 || Sydney M. Gronroos 18 Attorneys for Defendant COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE, CHAD BIANCO, || DEPUTY BAKER, DEPUTY MATHIS, and 90 || DEPUTY SIDIQUIL 21 22 || FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, IT IS SO ORDERED. 23 74 || DATED: July 3, 2025 25 LR = 26 Hon. Sheri Pym United States Magistrate Judge 28 E, WILLIAMS &

1 EXHIBIT A 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 3 I, [print or type full name], of 4 [print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read 5 in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the 6 United States District Court for the Central District of California on [date] in the 7 case of [insert formal name of the case and the number and initials assigned to 8 it by the court]. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this 9 Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so 10 comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I 11 solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that 12 is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict 13 compliance with the provisions of this Order. 14 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the 15 Central District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this 16 Stipulated Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after 17 termination of this action. I hereby appoint [print or type 18 full name] of [print or type full address and 19 telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in connection with 20 this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective 21 Order. 22 Date: 23 City and State where sworn and signed: 24 25 Printed name: 26 27 Signature: