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U.S. appeals court deciding if high school students can parody administrators online

donal brown June 7, 2010

A Pennsylvania federal court is deciding if adolescents can be punished for ridiculing school principals online using lewd and outrageous language. -db The Philadelphia Inquirer June 4, 2010 By Nathan Gorenstein A federal appeals court in Philadelphia is considering whether adolescents with home computers and lewd vocabularies can be punished for ridiculing school principals on the Internet. Web parodies of public officials have existed for years, but unsettled issues about what students can say about

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Los Angeles supervisors’ meeting on Capitol Hill said to violate California open meeting law

donal brown June 7, 2010

Full Disclosure Network, a cable news outlet, charged that their reporter and a camera crew were illegally ejected from meetings in which five members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors met with Senators Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and members of Congress. -db PR Newswire June 7, 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. – /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ten Capitol Hill meetings held on May 5th and 6th at the White House and in the offices of Senators Diane

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Newspaper publisher association urges newspapers to defend Brown Act

donal brown June 7, 2010

Noting that the state legislature is currently considering weakening provisions of the Brown Act, the California Newspaper Publishers Association has asked newspapers to run editorials in support of fully funding the Brown Act so that government agencies must post an agenda 72 hours in advance and then stick to it. -db California Newspaper Publishers Association Opinion June 4, 2010 Like budget crises past, the governor and legislature are again considering suspension of the reimbursable state

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San Diego schools admits to error in alerting media of two meetings

donal brown June 7, 2010

After a prompting from a reporter, the San Diego Unified School District acknowledged that they had to post and notify the media of all meetings 24 hours in advance. The Board of Trustees had posted notices for two meetings properly but failed to give the media adequate notice. -db San Diego News Network Opinion June 3, 2010 By Marsha Sutton The first notice received on Wed. at 3:57 p.m. notified the media of a special

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San Leandro schools holds up action on new superintendent’s title for public comment

donal brown June 7, 2010

The San Leandro School Board approved a contract for a new superintendent but did not remove the interim tag from his title so that the public could have a chance to give their input on the promotion. -db East Bay The Citizen.com June 3, 2010 By Steven Tavares San Leandro Interim Superintendent Cindy Cathey received a new contract through June 2011. The San Leandro School Board unanimously approved Cathey’s contract, but did not remove the

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