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Capistrano schools held in violation of California’s open meeting laws

donal brown March 23, 2010

A superior court judge ruled that the Capistrano Unified School District violated the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law, in not properly preparing the agenda on a closed door meeting on a personnel matter. In recent years the board had been reprimanded five times for violating the Brown Act, and a board with all new members had pledged to do better. -db Orange County Register March 22, 2010 By Scott Martindale SANTA ANA –

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Chinese human rights activists mourn Google’s withdrawal from China

donal brown March 22, 2010

With Google poised to withdraw from China, there is recognition that China has dealt a blow to hopes for its gradual change to a more open and democratic society. db The Washington Post March 20, 2010 By John Pomfret BEIJING — When Google announced that it would pull out of China if it had to continue censoring content, Zhao Hun went to the Internet giant’s Beijing headquarters with a bouquet of flowers. For the popular

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Federal judge says leak classified info, pay the penalty

donal brown March 22, 2010

A federal judge says in certain circumstances individuals might choose to leak classified information when  the public should know what the government is doing, but the leaker should be willing to take the consequences of breaking the law. -db Secrecy News Federation of American Scientists March 22, 2010 By Steven Aftergood Leaking classified information to an unauthorized person may be the right thing to do in certain circumstances, suggested Judge T.S. Ellis, III of the

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Congress acts to cast federal transparency initiatives in cement

donal brown March 22, 2010

A bipartisan move is afoot to make Obama’s transparency initiatives permanent. -db NextGov March 18, 2010 By Aliya Sternstein Lawmakers from both parties are pursuing efforts that would require agencies to post public information online by default, moves that would preserve for posterity elements of the Obama administration’s open government agenda. Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., introduced on Tuesday the 2010 Public Online Information Act (H.R.4858), which would require all executive branch records to be searchable

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State Department lifts ban on scholars banned from U.S. for political views

donal brown March 22, 2010

Professors Adam Habib and Tariq Ramadan are expected to travel to the U.S. for speaking engagements in the next few weeks after years of exclusion stemming from their political views critical of some government policies. -db American Civil liberties Union Press Release March 22, 2010 NEW YORK – Two prominent scholars are coming to the United States after years of being wrongfully denied entry to the country on the basis of their political views. The

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