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Obama administration balks at releasing statistics online

donal brown January 29, 2010

In accordance with new government directives on transparency, federal agencies sent the Office of Management and Budget nearly 300 data sets on Jan. 22, but the Obama administration has withheld a number of the sets. -db NextGov January 27, 2010 By Aliya Sternstein The Obama administration has declined to post, and in some cases has removed, several sets of downloadable statistics that agencies submitted last week for publication online, due to privacy and other concerns.

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Federal court rules that newspaper owner’s First Amendment rights trump employee’s job rights

donal brown January 28, 2010

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Santa Barbara News-Press did not have to rehire employees fired for union activity to pressure the owner and publisher from controlling the editorial content of the newspaper. -DB Metropolitan News-Enterprise January 27, 2010 By Steven M. Ellis The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday declined to force a Santa Barbara newspaper to temporarily rehire eight employees allegedly fired for union activity directed at pressuring the

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Nonprofit vies for right to fund political ads without limits

donal brown January 28, 2010

A federal appeals court will take up the suit of SpeechNow.org v. Federal Election Commission. The nonprofit SpeechNow.org is suing for the right to advocate for free speech and against free speech restriction in campaign reforms without having to set up a separate political action committee. -DB Institute for Justice Press Release January 26, 2010 ARLINGTON, Va.—Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations may fund independent political ads without government-imposed limits. Tomorrow (Wednesday,

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Under Obama federal agencies still fighting record requests

donal brown January 28, 2010

The Washington Post reports that federal agencies are still balking at releasing records to the public, claiming that it would interfere with internal decision-making or compromise national security. In Obama’s first year, the number of Freedom of  Information Act lawsuits filed exceeds the number filed in each of Bush’s last two years. -DB The Washington Post January 27, 2010 By Carol D. Leonnig More than 300 individuals and groups have sued the government to get

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Santa Barbara university student council suddenly closes meeting

donal brown January 28, 2010

The Associated Students Legislative Council at the University of California, Santa Barbara closed a part of their Wednesday night meeting without prior notice or disclosing before hand their reasons prompting complaints that the state’s open government laws had been violated. -DB Daily Nexus January 28, 2010 By Elliott Rosenfeld and Mackenzie Weinger The Associated Students Legislative Council barred all members of the public yesterday from a portion of their regular Wednesday night meeting. At 6:15 p.m.,

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