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Del Mar: Parents want school board to fulfill campaign promises for open government and full transparency

donal brown June 8, 2010

Four parents have criticized the Del Mar Unified School District Board of Trustees for not allowing the community a reasonable opportunity to weigh in on the selection of a new superintendent. They say that bending the state’s open meeting law, the Brown Act, is not responsible leadership. –db Del Mar Times May 26, 2010 By Suzanne Hall, Torrey Hills parent, Lesley Ballard, Sage Canyon parent, Janet Handzel, Sage Canyon parent and Jill Steiner, Carmel Del

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ACLU sues over access to surveillance documents

donal brown June 7, 2010

The American Civil Liberties filed suit in federal district court to obtain documents concerning the federal government’s surveillance of U.S. citizens using the electronic media to communicate with people overseas. -db FierceGovernment June 7 2010 By David Perera The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit June 3 in a New York federal district court to receive documents pertaining to the government’s implementation of a 2008 law that allows electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens’ communications with

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FCC plans to establish legal authority over Internet through reclassification plan

donal brown June 7, 2010

The Federal Communications Commission wants to regulate the Internet as a phone service it says which would settle legal uncertainties and increase investment. -db The Wrap June 03, 2010 By Ira Teinowitz A second FCC commissioner is rejecting as hogwash contentions that regulating the internet as a phone service would lead to massive disruption and economic woes. An appellate court has ruled that the FCC has no legal authority over the internet, which the commission

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U.S. appeals court deciding if high school students can parody administrators online

donal brown June 7, 2010

A Pennsylvania federal court is deciding if adolescents can be punished for ridiculing school principals online using lewd and outrageous language. -db The Philadelphia Inquirer June 4, 2010 By Nathan Gorenstein A federal appeals court in Philadelphia is considering whether adolescents with home computers and lewd vocabularies can be punished for ridiculing school principals on the Internet. Web parodies of public officials have existed for years, but unsettled issues about what students can say about

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Los Angeles supervisors’ meeting on Capitol Hill said to violate California open meeting law

donal brown June 7, 2010

Full Disclosure Network, a cable news outlet, charged that their reporter and a camera crew were illegally ejected from meetings in which five members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors met with Senators Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and members of Congress. -db PR Newswire June 7, 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. – /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ten Capitol Hill meetings held on May 5th and 6th at the White House and in the offices of Senators Diane

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