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Obama favors disclosing contacts between lobbyists with administration or Congress

donal brown January 30, 2010

The Electronic Frontier Foundation hails President Barack Obama’s statement in the State of the Union address about disclosing lobbyist contacts. The Obama administration has been fighting FOIA requests seeking identities of lobbyists working the Department of Justice and Director of National Intelligence. -db Electronic Frontier Foundation Commentary January 28, 2010 By Kurt Opsahl In yesterday’s State of the Union address, President Obama made an important commitment to openness and transparency in government: He said “It’s time

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School punishes student for video posted in summer on Youtube

donal brown January 30, 2010

The Roseville Joint Union High School District banned a student from playing on the Granite Bay High School basketball team for posting on Youtube a parody video about hip hop music and the youth drug culture. -db Courthouse News Service January 29, 2010 By Tish Kraft AUBURN, Calif. (CN) – A dad says Roseville Joint Union High School District unfairly threw his son off the Granite Bay High School basketball team because the boy produced

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Public happy with efforts to put government information online

donal brown January 29, 2010

A new survey showed the public satisfaction with federal Web sites has increased from 73.6 points in 2007 to 75.2 for the third quarter of 2009. -db Nextgov January 26, 2010 By Jill Aitoro Citizen satisfaction with federal Web sites increased significantly in 2009, indicating that efforts by the Obama administration to increase transparency in government are getting noticed, according to a new report. For the last quarter of 2009, more than 250,000 citizens surveyed

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Obama administration balks at releasing statistics online

donal brown January 29, 2010

In accordance with new government directives on transparency, federal agencies sent the Office of Management and Budget nearly 300 data sets on Jan. 22, but the Obama administration has withheld a number of the sets. -db NextGov January 27, 2010 By Aliya Sternstein The Obama administration has declined to post, and in some cases has removed, several sets of downloadable statistics that agencies submitted last week for publication online, due to privacy and other concerns.

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Federal court rules that newspaper owner’s First Amendment rights trump employee’s job rights

donal brown January 28, 2010

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Santa Barbara News-Press did not have to rehire employees fired for union activity to pressure the owner and publisher from controlling the editorial content of the newspaper. -DB Metropolitan News-Enterprise January 27, 2010 By Steven M. Ellis The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday declined to force a Santa Barbara newspaper to temporarily rehire eight employees allegedly fired for union activity directed at pressuring the

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