Gov. Gavin Newsom approved a novel tax plan to keep California’s shrinking newsrooms afloat. It provides incentives for companies to hire journalists.

A state appeals court says a Bay Area journalist was entitled to report that a tech executive had been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, even though the arrest record had been sealed by police, which normally makes disclosure of its contents illegal.

The California Supreme Court hearing on Kern River flows has been changed from Redding to the justices’ home court in San Francisco, according to the court’s website. The hearing will still be held Oct. 7 at 9 a.m.

The court-mandated reform effort began as part of a 2003 settlement in a federal civil-rights lawsuit rooted in an infamous Oakland police misconduct case known as the Riders scandal. As part of the negotiated settlement agreement — known locally as the NSA — the city agreed to implement dozens of reforms intended to overhaul the department’s accountability mechanisms, reduce racial disparities in policing and curb officer misconduct.