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Federal judge scraps provisions of San Diego’s campaign-finance laws

donal brown February 25, 2010

In accordance with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Citizens United case, a federal judge struck down several provisions of San Diego’s campaign-finance law and particularly a ban on contributions from political parties and a $500 cap on donations to independent expenditure committees. -db Courthouse News Service February 23, 2010 By Annie Youderian (CN) – A federal judge in San Diego struck down several provisions of the city’s campaign-finance laws, including a $500 cap

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Are Myths Killing the Newspaper Business?

FAC February 24, 2010

Are newspapers dead, dead, dead? If you can believe everything you read in them, apparently so. Hal Fuson, a veteran of 44-years in the news business, didn’t think those obituary writers had their stories straight. In fact, they were reporting myths about the dire state of the industry as though they were facts. When Fuson, who is a member of FAC’s board, recently retired from Copley Press, decided to set the record straight. “I had

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Federal government agencies: Transparency watch group assesses open data web pages

donal brown February 23, 2010

OMB Watch designated “leaders and laggards” after it conducted a study of government web pages designed to give citizens access to crucial information. -db OMB Watch February 23, 2010 Complying with requirements of the Open Government Directive (OGD), federal agencies launched transparency pages on their websites Feb. 6. The content and functionality of the pages varied from non-compliant to barely compliant to above and beyond expectations. OMB Watch conducted an assessment of the webpages between

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San Diego planning task force accused of violating California’s open government law

donal brown February 23, 2010

Community members involved in planning for San Diego have expressed concerns about an advisory committee with a large representation of builders and developers. They claim the committee’s meetings were not adequately publicized. -db San Diego Uptown News February 20, 2010 By David Harvey At the San Diego City Council’s Land Use and Housing (LU&H) committee meeting on Feb. 3, representatives from the city’s community planning groups asked the committee to postpone action on a Development

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Federal archivist calls for reform on declassification policy and procedure

donal brown February 22, 2010

According to Michael J. Kurtz, Assistant Archivist at the National Archives, the backlog of records awaiting declassification will continue to grow until classification policies are changed. -db Secrecy News American Federation of Scientists Opinion February 22, 2010 By Steven Aftergood Executive branch agencies have spent more than a billion dollars on declassification of government records in recent years, but the results have been unsatisfactory, requiring a change in declassification policy and procedure. “Between 1997 and

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