Judge lifts seal on Josh Jacobs video, leaving release to police balancing test
Brown County Judge Marc Hammer ended the temporary seal on records in Josh Jacobs’s domestic violence case on Thursday, September 24. While the judge denied the victim’s request for a permanent seal, he emphasized that the footage showing the Green Bay Packers running back throwing his ex-girlfriend to the ground is not automatically public. Hammer ruled that the decision to release the video must now go through a public records request process involving a balancing test by the Hobart/Lawrence police, rather than a court order. Jacobs remains on the NFL’s commissioner’s exempt list while the league awaits access to the footage to determine potential disciplinary action under its Personal Conduct Policy.
