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Appeal filed in case of Tulare County supervisors’ ‘unofficial’ lunch meetings

donal brown May 5, 2011

The First Amendment Coalition and a number of newspapers across the state are appealing a case involving an alleged Brown Act violation by the Tulare County Board of Supervisors who held 30 lunch meetings without public participation. A superior court judge dismissed the suit as lacking factual basis to proceed to trial. The appeal is seen as a way to honor the memory of open-government advocate and CalAware co-founder Rich McKee who died last month.

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Federal appeals court rules employees reporting fraud can be punished for talking to media

donal brown May 5, 2011

A law on whistle-blowers does not protect them from retaliation if they take their case to the media, ruled a federal appeals court in San Francisco. The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act only protects whistle-blowers if they report suspected fraud to federal regulators, Congress or a workplace supervisor. In so ruling the court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit by Boeing auditors fired in 2007 for telling a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter that they were being pressured to

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Reporters group wants review of Marshals Service’s mug shot policy

donal brown May 3, 2011

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has filed a friend-of-the-court brief contesting the U.S. marshals Service’s policy of releasing suspect’s mug shot according to a requestor’s home base. “These rules are inane to the point of ridiculous,” said Reporters Committee Executive Director Lucy A. Dalglish. “In addition to creating an inexcusable geographic bias for release — if you live here you can get it, if you live there you cannot — all this

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WikiLeaks founder says social media operate as tools for U.S. intelligence

donal brown May 3, 2011

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called Facebook the “most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented.” Assange pointed out that a trove of information about people, their relationships, conversations and locations exists on the social media and that U.S. intelligence agencies could bring pressure on Facebook, Yahoo, Google and others to extract that information. -db From NextWeb, May 2, 2011, by Matt Brian. Full story

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Twitter scoops traditional media in reporting bin Laden raid

donal brown May 3, 2011

Twitter carried reports of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound and his death before it was reported by cable news and print media. A Pakistani who says he is an IT professional and coffee shop owner tweeted the attack live. The Twitter phenomenon has prompted concerns that sensitive information such as the plans for the raid on bin Laden would appear online, but so far there have been no reports of a U.S. military

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