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Watchdogs needed to ensure federal openness initiatives don’t stagnate

donal brown January 11, 2010

The Obama administration has made significant progress in improving transparency, but a lot more work is needed to achieve full openness and accountability. DB Bangor Daily News Editorial January 11, 2010 President Barack Obama took office with a promise of transparency. He has made strides, but he still has a way to go. In his first 100 days, the traditional period for a new administration to set its tone, he hit the ground running. In

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Editorial: Public has right to access police disciplinary hearings

donal brown January 11, 2010

A San Francisco Chronicle editorial argues that as a matter of great public concern, police misconduct hearings should be open. Maintaining secrecy erodes public trust of the police. -DB San Francisco Chronicle Editorial January 11, 2010 Our system of government is based on the idea that an open government is a smarter, safer and more effective government. That’s why we have public hearings, public notices and public comment on important issues that affect all of

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Public has right of access to publicly-funded research

donal brown January 11, 2010

It seems obvious that the public should have free access to studies funded with their tax dollars. EFF senior staff attorney Corynne McSherry says the public needs to express its support for a new initiative from the Obama administration to allow taxpayers access to research supported by a wide range of government agencies. -DB Electronic Frontier Foundation Opinion January 9, 2010 By Corynne McSherry Sometimes an idea is so blindingly, obviously good that you have to

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Diet doctor sues Kim Kardashian over alleged libelous twitters

donal brown January 8, 2010

Observers think that Dr. Sanford Siegal has a weak case in his libel suit against celebrity Kim Kardashian. Siegal created the “Cookie Diet” and subsequently posted that Kim Kardashian had lost weight using the cookie diet. Siegel sued over Kardashian’s tweets that stated it was false that she was on the cookie diet and that if Siegal was lying about this, there may be other lies afoot. -DB Citizen Media Law Project January 7, 2010

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Big Bear services district errs in conducting secret ballot

donal brown January 7, 2010

The president of the Big Bear Community Service District admitted it was a violation of California’s open government law, the Brown Act, to elect the new president of the board by secret ballot. -DB Big Bear Grizzly January 7, 2010 By Katie Onheiber and Judi Bowers The Big Bear City Community Services District board has spoken, the problem is it was not verbally. “I made a radical mistake,” says John Day, president of the CSD

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