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California: Journalist arrested for attempting to videotape public meeting on marine life protection

donal brown April 26, 2010

A Fish and Game warden arrested a journalist for videotaping a meeting of a state agency created to protect the ocean from pollution and development.  -db North Coast April 25, 2010 By John Lewallen Independent video journalist David Gurney has a powerful sense of duty: to create a video record of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPAI), and to speak politely and in turn at public MLPA meetings. David Gurney was forcibly removed by

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Yolo County: Request made for full disclosure of details of shooting incident

donal brown April 26, 2010

A watchdog group has requested that the District Attorney release to the public the full report on their investigation in the case of the shooting of Luis Gutierrez. The group specifically wants to know if a sheriff deputy put a gun to a nine-year-old girl’s head during the incident. -db Yolo Judicial Watch Commentary April 24, 2010 By David Greenwald Let me be honest here and say that I am frustrated with the way our

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L.A. City Council watchdog alleges electricity rates boosted without legal notice

donal brown April 26, 2010

A Los Angeles citizen has claimed that the city council passed electricity rate hikes without 72 hours notice required under the Brown Act, California’s open meeting law. -db LA Weekly April 23, 2010 By Dennis Romero ​Longtime City Council gadfly Joyce Dillard has sent letters to council president Eric Garcetti and City Attorney Carmen Trutanich alleging that the city illegally passed its electricity rate hikes last week without proper public notice — 72 hours in

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Federal ruling in Ohio on sexually explicit material hailed as free speech victory

donal brown April 26, 2010

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression found much to like in a federal appeals court ruling that an Ohio statue providing for criminal penalties for providing non-obscene and sexually explicit mater to minors could not be applies to traffic on websites, in chatrooms and through e-mail listervs and mailing lists. -db Authorlink News April 19, 2010 The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) has welcomed an April 15 federal appeals court ruling that

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Group challenges federal ban of photography outside federal buildings

donal brown April 26, 2010

Contending that a ban on photos outside a courthouse was unconstitutional, the New York Civi Liberties Union is suing the U.S. government. -db The New York Times April 22, 2010 By Larry Neumeister NEW YORK (AP) — A civil rights group accused the U.S. government of harassing law-abiding photographers outside a courthouse, saying in a lawsuit Thursday that a vague federal regulation restricting photography has been used inconsistently and is unconstitutional. The New York Civil

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