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Indiana high School students sue after school imposed penalties for posting racy photos on internet

donal brown November 3, 2009

Two sophomores from an Indiana high school were barred from afterschool sports for the 2009-2010 school year when the administration objected to sexually provocative images of themselves the girls posted on MySpace. The American Civil Liberties Union is filing a suit against the school, arguing that the posting was not disruptive and therefore violated the students’ First Amendment rights. The students apologized and have been reinstated for the fall sports season. Tech Herald contributor Steve

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First Amendment panel finds promise, pitfalls in social media

FAC November 3, 2009

By Donal Brown The panel on journalists and social media at the First Amendment Coatition Assembly offered wise advice and a few emphatic warnings, chief among them: everything a journalist puts up on Twitter or Facebook or other social media is public. Speaking at the assembly October 24 in Los Angeles on the panel entitled “Twitter with Care: Journalists and Social Media,” prominent Southern California media attorney Kelli Sager suggests that journalists put nothing up

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Groups for sealing Tennessee handgun database ask for the records

donal brown November 3, 2009

The Tennessean November 3, 2009 By Erik Schelzig Associated Press Even though Republicans have opposed releasing records of Tennessee handgun permit holders, the state Republican party and a company doing campaign work for the Republicans have both requested the records. Open government advocates are seeking the records to determine if the state is properly denying permits to those not allowed handguns. -DB

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FBI releases former Vice President Cheney’s interview on outing of CIA agent

donal brown November 3, 2009

The transcript of Dick Cheney’s FBI interview on the Valerie Plame incident was released to the public last week. Both the Bush or Obama administrations tried to keep the transcript secret. -DB Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press November 2, 2009 By Amanda Becker The FBI released documents under court order Friday that show former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recollection is fuzzy on his involvement in the exposure of an undercover CIA operative in

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ACLU gets more records about Bush administration’s interrogation of detainees

donal brown November 2, 2009

The federal government handed over to the American Civil Liberties Union more documents requested through the Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. The documents pertained to the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody overseas. -DB American Civil Liberties Union Press Release October 30, 2009 NEW YORK – The government today handed over to the American Civil Liberties Union numerous documents in response to two ACLU Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits for information related to the

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