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Congress acts to cast federal transparency initiatives in cement

donal brown March 22, 2010

A bipartisan move is afoot to make Obama’s transparency initiatives permanent. -db NextGov March 18, 2010 By Aliya Sternstein Lawmakers from both parties are pursuing efforts that would require agencies to post public information online by default, moves that would preserve for posterity elements of the Obama administration’s open government agenda. Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., introduced on Tuesday the 2010 Public Online Information Act (H.R.4858), which would require all executive branch records to be searchable

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State Department lifts ban on scholars banned from U.S. for political views

donal brown March 22, 2010

Professors Adam Habib and Tariq Ramadan are expected to travel to the U.S. for speaking engagements in the next few weeks after years of exclusion stemming from their political views critical of some government policies. -db American Civil liberties Union Press Release March 22, 2010 NEW YORK – Two prominent scholars are coming to the United States after years of being wrongfully denied entry to the country on the basis of their political views. The

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High court refuses to hear case banning hymn at high school graduation

donal brown March 22, 2010

The Supreme Court will not consider a lower court ruling backing a Washington state high school’s decision to ban a religious song at graduation. Judge Samuel Alito dissented with the argument that the decision would open the door to censorship of student speech. -db Courthouse News Service March 22, 2010 By Annie Youderian (CN) – The Supreme Court on Monday refused to disturb a 9th Circuit ruling backing a Washington public high school’s decision to

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Federal court scuttles subpoenas for two years of news coverage of murder investigation and court sessions

donal brown March 22, 2010

A federal judge in North Carolina rejected a request from the defense in a murder trial to force the media to produce public records of news coverage of the case holding that that would shift the burden for the defense from the suspect to the media. -db The Newsroom Law Blog March 18, 2010 By Elizabeth Spainhour North Carolina media organizations won a significant victory in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of

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Open government gadfly snares $3.5 million for San Francisco

donal brown March 19, 2010

San Francisco’s notable open government advocate is sometimes thought to provide an ordeal for government agencies with his voluminous public record requests, but he compensated them richly recently when he discovered that Morgan Stanley failed to pay the City a transfer tax of $3.5 million. -db San Francisco Bay Guardian March 18, 2010 By Rebecca Bowe Sunshine advocate Kimo Crossman is sometimes counted as a thorn in the side of city government agencies due to

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