Proposed Changes To ‘Stand Your Ground’ Could Limit Journalists’ Access To Court Records

[SecularMotion]

As the Florida Legislature considers tweaks to the state’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law, legislators have added a provision that would stop journalists from gaining access to court records in cases involving self-defense.

The change has already gained public support of the NRA’s Marion Hammer—the most influential pro-gun lobbyist in Tallahassee.

The Times/Herald reports, “Hammer said she had no hand in writing the amendment, but agrees with Gaetz that it is necessary.”

This could become a contentious issue considering the state’s history with self-defense cases.

http://fcir.org/2014/03/24/proposed-changes-to-stand-your-ground-could-limit-journalists-access-to-court-records/

[Downwinder]

1. The Zimmy Protection Act?

[gejohnston]

2. would have nothing to do with him

The change would not make immunity hearings public. Since Zimmerman did not request an immunity hearing, it doesn't matter.
In an immunity hearing, the burden is for a shooter/stabber to convince a judge that it was justifiable by the preponderance of the evidence. The theory being that if someone could prove their innocence of a crime by the same standard of a civil trial, the DA would not be able disprove self defense beyond a reasonalbe doubt in a trial. They are less expensive and low risk. If you lose the immunity hearing, you go to trial.
One thing Media Matters is being less than honest about:

Among those speaking out are top reporters and editors at the Tampa Bay Times, which conducted a lengthy 2012 investigation into Stand Your Ground that won industry praise and raised concerns about the applications of the law, including the fact that in nearly four out of every five cases involving a Stand Your Ground defense, homicides were deemed justified if the victim was black.

Depending how it defines victim. MM defines would be home invaders, rapists, and people who start violent assaults as "victims". That's bullshit.
What MM doesn't tell you, and Tampa Bay times did, that the shooters (the crime victims) were also black. Most of the ones involving whites, both the would be victim and the would be perpetrator is also white. Most violent crime is intra race.