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California school district adopts changes to comply with open meeting law

donal brown August 12, 2010

To comply with California’s open meetings law, the Brown Act, the Fillmore Unified School District board of trustees changed its policies on banning recording of its meetings and their requirement that speakers to the board provide an address before making comments. -db m.vcstar.com August 4, 2010 By Cheri Carlson Fillmore Unified School District trustees have made some changes to comply with the state open-meetings law. The district received a warning letter from the Ventura County

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Bell city scandal prompts consideration of government accountability

donal brown August 12, 2010

A Los Angeles Times columnist says the fleecing of the small city of Bell by its own elected officials has prompted a flurry of citizen activity in public records requests. But experience shows that public officials can conjure up a myriad of excuses for and stratagems to withhold information from the public so citizens must persist. -db Los Angeles Times Commentary August 11, 2010 By James Rainey We’re living through the Summer of Bell. The Tony

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N.Y. governor offers help moving ground-zero mosque

FAC August 11, 2010

New York Gov. David Paterson offered state help yesterday if the developers of a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks agree to move the project farther from the site. August 11, 2010 By The Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. —Paterson, a Democrat, said that he doesn’t oppose the project as planned but indicated that he understands where opponents are coming from. He said he was willing to intervene to seek other suitable state

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Free-speech right covers national parks

FAC August 11, 2010

People wishing to hand out leaflets or loudly speak their mind on religion, immigration or the death penalty at Independence National Historical Park or any other national-park site will have an easier time doing so based on a recent court decision. Philadelphia Daily News August 9, 2010 By Julie Shaw shawj@phillynews.com The ruling would allow small groups and individuals the right to spontaneously express themselves – whether by distributing pamphlets on God, lecturing on global

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Google CEO: Online Anonymity Is Dangerous

FAC August 11, 2010

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said anonymity on the Internet is dangerous, according to a report in the Huffington Post. August 11, 2010 By International Business Times In an interview with CNBC conducted at the Techonomy conference earlier this month, Schmidt offered an additional look at his views on online privacy and  anonymity, says the report. Arguing that anonymity on the Internet is dangerous, Schmidt had reportedly said, “In a world of asynchronous threats, it

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