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Southern California: Long running ad hoc committees trample open government

donal brown December 18, 2009

With 14 ad hoc committees, one four years old, the Highland City Council is needlessly conducting vast amounts of the people’s business behind closed doors, says an editorial in the Highland Community News. -DB Highland Community News Editorial December 17, 2009 Ad hoc committees can serve a very useful purpose. Operating out of public view, they can sometimes work out difficult and challenging problems meeting one-on-one with those involved in controversial items. Ad hoc committees are

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Gilroy City Council fails to stop pot dispensary while violating California open government law

donal brown December 18, 2009

The Gilroy City Council met in closed session to decide what to do on about a pot dispensary operating without a license thereby botching their attempt to gain a preliminary injunction to close down the dispensary.-DB Gilroy Dispatch Editorial December 17, 2009 Spanked. That’s what the city of Gilroy got in court Tuesday when seeking a preliminary injunction to close down the MediLeaf marijuana dispensary on First Street. Not only that, Judge Kevin Murphy added insult

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Ad charging bank crime refused by Nigerian press in alleged payoff

donal brown December 17, 2009

A Brooklyn lawyer says when he tried to run an ad in Nigeria’s “The Nation” charging a bank made its female employees offer sex to attract investors, the publication refused his ad saying it had accepted a payoff from the bank. -DB Courthouse News Service December 17, 2009 By Adam Klasfeld BROOKLYN (NY) – A Brooklyn lawyer says a Nigerian bank hired people to threaten his life after he tried to expose its coerced “corporate

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Federal Court rejects argument that mug shot of securities fraud suspect is public record

donal brown December 17, 2009

A Florida federal court rejected the Freedom of Information Act request of a freelance journalist for a prisoner’s mug shot ruling that the man’s privacy was more important than the public’s interest in seeing the photo. -DB The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press December 16, 2009 By Amanda Becker A federal court in south Florida told a freelance journalist that his request for the mug shot of a securities fraud mastermind will go

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Freedom of Information Act request garners oversight report of alleged illegal intelligence activities

donal brown December 17, 2009

In response to its FOIA lawsuit in July, the Electronic Frontier Foundation saw the government release an intelligence oversight report that reveals intelligence activities some believe are illegal. -DB Electronic Frontier Foundation December 16, 2009 By Nate Cardozo Today the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Security Agency released 162 pages of intelligence oversight reporting in response to a Freedom of Information

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