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L.A. City Council tries to silence gadflies

donal brown July 31, 2009

The Los Angeles City Council passed a rule saying that members of the public who engage in “inappropriate” behavior will be thrown out of council meetings without warning. -DB LA Weekly  July 30, 2009  By Patrick Range McDonald In a move bound to anger gadflies across Los Angeles, the L.A. City Council has approved tough gagging rules to keep members of an apparently disorderly public from speaking too much of what’s on their minds. The unanimously

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Parents win round in suit over suspension over ‘threat’

donal brown July 30, 2009

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted parents another hearing in their quest to defend their son’s free speech rights after he was suspended for an alleged threat written in crayon in response to a class assignment. -DB First Amendment Center July 29, 2009 By David L. Hudson Jr. A lower federal court jumped the gun in dismissing a lawsuit filed by the parents of an elementary school student suspended for allegedly scribbling a threat

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Security concerns may shut down military social networks for military personnel

donal brown July 30, 2009

Just as the U.S. military is beginning to embrace Twitter and Facebook, it may have to close these sites down to keep out hackers and cybercrooks. -DB Wired July 30, 2009 By Noah Shachtman The U.S. military is strongly considering a near-total ban on Twitter, Facebook, and all other social networking sites throughout the Department of Defense, multiple sources within the armed forces tell Danger Room. It’s the latest twist in the Defense Department’s tangled relationship

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Report finds states lag in providing tracking of stimulus spending

donal brown July 30, 2009

A Washington research firm representing 35 public interest groups has found deficiencies in the Web performances of states as they track stimulus spending. Only four states were found to provide employment data when job creation is one of the chief goals of the recovery plan. -DB NextGov July 29, 2009 By Aliya Sternstein A study released on Wednesday criticizes most state Web sites that track stimulus spending, specifically finding fault with their coverage of job creation,

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Gates case: Disorderly conduct or protected speech?

donal brown July 30, 2009

Concerning the arrest of the Harvard Professor Louis Gates, a commentator for Forbes Magazine says it is important to look beyond the racial and class issues to those of the First Amendment. Does loud and offensive necessarily constitute disorderly conduct? -DB Forbes Magazine Commentary July 28, 2009 By Harvey A. Silverglate The now-infamous Gates story has gone through the familiar media spin-cycle: incident, reaction, response, so on and so forth. Drowned out of this echo chamber

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