The City of Fullerton ended a longstanding lawsuit May 12 against a local blog and two of its contributors. The case dates back to 2019 when Joshua Ferguson and David Curlee of Friends for Fullerton’s Future blog reportedly posted confidential documents that showed the city engaging in questionable conduct. In response, the city issued a cease-and-desist letter to have the documents taken down, and when the orders weren’t followed, the city sued to have all documents returned to city hall. It also obtained a restraining order to prevent more documents from being publicly posted, although it was overturned shortly after. Prior to the lawsuit, the bloggers had filed dozens of public record requests under the Freedom of Information Act; the city responded to the requests by providing them with a link and password to a Dropbox account. The writers were able to obtain access to more documents than they had asked for by using the same password on other folders within the shared Dropbox storage, the …