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April 3, 2014 CBS 13 Sacramento

ATTN: Tom Bell, KOVR News Director Kevin Walsh, KOVR General Manager

2713 KOVR Drive West Sacramento, CA 95605 Phone 916-374-1301 Fax 916-374-1427

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 RE: Anjali Hemphill Project Truth Story

To The Editor: By way of introduction, the Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF) is a not-for-profit organization based in Napa, California. As part of LLDF’s mission, we defend the First Amendment rights of clients engaged in  programs designed to educate the public about the sanctity of all human life. We do not charge our clients for our services. I am a senior staff attorney with the Life Legal Defense Foundation. Participants with Project Truth contacted me with several concerns regarding the news story about their outreach at Rancho Cordova High School that aired on your station on Friday, March 21, 2014. Project Truth is a pro-life activist ministry dedicated to educating high school and college aged young adults about the truth of abortion through the use of educational displays, literature and conversation. Participants have been peacefully distributing accurate and informative literature to Sacramento and Placer area schools for more than 15 years. Your news story, which depicts a man wearing a black shirt, dark colored  pants and a baseball hat purportedly putting a Project Truth leaflet on Larry Blount’s car in his driveway, was misleading and slanderous. First, the man depicted in the video is not a participant with Project Truth and did not put the leaflet on the car. It appears as though this was staged for the news story. If your story was truly about “Getting Answers” as you claim it was, then why didn’t your reporter, Anjalie Hemphill, attempt to interview the man in the cap? Moreover, there were no media personnel or news cameras in the area on March 18, 2014 when Project Truth  participants were handing out literature to the Rancho Cordova High School students.