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Journalistic Standards v. California Labor Code By Nick Rahaim The Daily Triplicate of California’s remote Del Norte County has lost the first round in a law suit pitting a reporter’s desire to engage in local politics with the newspaper’s enforcement of ethics standards that forbid the mixing of journalism and political activities. The Daily Triplicate is being sued in federal District Court by Kent Gray, a former staff reporter. Gray was fired after becoming a

FREE THE HEWLETT-PACKARD 5! Corporations must have power to police leaks internally so newspapers will remain free to publish leaks By Peter Scheer California Attorney General Bill Lockyer wasted no time in filing criminal charges against former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, H-P’s senior legal counsel and three outside security consultants for alleged crimes committed in the course of an over-zealous effort to plug leaks in the H-P boardroom. Lockyer’s haste has nothing to do with

The “deliberative process privilege” is dead or, at best, on life support. Here’s to pulling the plug on an FOI loophole that never should have been. By Peter Scheer The chairman of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, Bill Postmus, refuses to make public his calendar of meetings and other government events. This refusal takes no small amount of chutzpah, since Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger regularly releases his calendars, as have all other statewide elected

Click here to view Program We should have known. A First Amendment conference featuring Arianna Huffington and Daniel Ellsberg–both appearing in the past week on “The Colbert Report” — would prove very popular. Especially since CFAC’s 9/29 & 9/30 conference at UC Berkeley also includes Judith Miller, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Dan Weintraub, Dan Gillmor, Phil Bronstein and former NSA general counsel Robert Deitz . . . among others. “IN CONTEMPT,” CFAC’s 2006 Free Speech and Open

2 Reporters Get Up to 18 months for Refusing to Reveal Sources in Bonds Steroids Case By Stuart Silverstein Los Angeles Times—Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters were sentenced Thursday to up to 18 months in jail for refusing to reveal who gave them secret testimony on the use of steroids by baseball’s Barry Bonds and other star athletes. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White in San Francisco was immediately stayed, pending an