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Lara Logan story points to need for greater protections for women on assignment

donal brown February 21, 2011

In an opinion piece in Mother Jones, Mac McClelland writes that the dangers women face covering volatile events in distant lands have for various reasons been neglected. The Lara Logan sexual assault in Egypt is but the latest of a number of frightening incidents. McClelland supports current efforts to include a section on sexual harassment and assault in the Committee to Protect Journalist’s “Journalist Safety Guide.” -db From Mother Jones, February 15, 2011, by Mac

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California: Santa Rosa City Council dinner meetings stretch state open meeting law

donal brown February 21, 2011

Last summer under fire, the Tulare County Board of Supervisors discontinued “morale-building” luncheon meetings not open to the public. Now the Santa Rosa City Council has resumed a practice of meeting at private dinners that they claim are solely for generating congeniality. But open government advocates are asking if it is advisable to hold the dinners privately so that members of the public cannot verify that council members discussed no city business in violation of

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Righthaven files 32 lawsuits over alleged unauthorized use of photo

donal brown February 17, 2011

Righthaven, a law firm that acquired copyrights to online content, has sued a number of media outlets for using a photo from the Denver Post published last November of an airport pat-down by security personnel. Writing in the Huffington Post, P. Solomon Banda says, “Righthaven has been criticized by some for suing first, rather than asking bloggers or operators of websites to remove copyrighted content.” -db From the Huffington Post, February 15, 2011, by P.

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A first: Size of budget for National Intelligence Program revealed

donal brown February 15, 2011

For the first time, the Director of National Intelligence disclosed the budget request for the coming year’s budget. For 2012, the amount requested is $55 billion. The call for  transparency has had a long history of contentious debate and litigation with the government arguing that revealing the budget could  hurt national security and compromise intelligence methods. From a commentary in Secrecy News, February 15, 2011, by Steven Aftergood. Full Story

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Washington: High school student suspended for abandoning school-approved speech

donal brown February 15, 2011

A high school sophomore from Edmonds, Washington, running for student government, was suspended for a day and a half after he substituted his own speech for a school-approved one. The student had urged students to boycott the election since student government officers were puppets of the teachers and had no real power. The boy’s mother is appealing the suspension to the school board on the grounds that the speech created no disruption at the school.

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