STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER

DALE A. DROZD, Magistrate Judge.

FOLLOWING MEET AND CONFER DISCUSSIONS, IT IS HEREBY AGREED AND STIPULATED BETWEEN THE PLAINTIFFS and the COUNTY OF SAN JOAQUIN that the documents produced by the COUNTY OF SAN JOAQUIN pursuant to the Plaintiffs' request for Production, Set #1 or subsequent productions, shall be governed by protective order. It is understood that the documents produced by the defendant involve and open and ongoing criminal investigation and that the suspect in the murders described in the documents were all or in part at the hand of Wesley Shermantine. Shermantine is currently housed on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California. It is understood that Shermantine has an appeal(s) of his criminal conviction pending and that the release of the produced documents may negatively interfere with Shermantine's appeal process or negatively interfere with the continuing investigative efforts of the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office or other law enforcement agency(s).

The produced documents shall be used by the parties solely for the purpose of prosecuting and defending the above captioned case. The documents shall not be duplicated, reproduced, transmitted, or communicated to any person or entity for any reason whatsoever excepting plaintiff's counsel; plaintiffs; declared experts pursuant to the plaintiffs' Rule 26 disclosure; deposition witnesses at the time of deposition; trial witnesses at the time of trial; mediator or third party neutral; or the court.

The copying of the documents is to be conducted in-house and shall not be done by outside third party vendors.

This Order shall constitute a protective order pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(c) and shall be enforceable as set forth therein. Plaintiffs' counsel shall advise the plaintiffs, experts and others of this Protective Order and its effect.

ORDER

Pursuant to the parties' stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.