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California appeals court dismisses suit on Tulare County lunch meetings

donal brown November 7, 2011

The 5th District Court of Appeals dismissed an open government suit by an open government advocate challenging closed lunch meetings held for morale-building purposes by the Tulare County Board of Supervisors. The court said that there was no relief since the supervisors had stopped holding the meetings alleged to be violations of the state’s open meeting law, the Brown Act. -db From the Metropolitan News-Enterprise, November 7, 2011, by Kenneth Ofgang. Full story  

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Seattle school administration considers new policy of prior restraint for student free press

donal brown November 7, 2011

A policy under consideration by the Seattle School Board would give principals the authority for prior review of high school newspapers and allow a stop to publication if they detected libel, obscenity and violations of the school’s educational mission. Critics argue that the principal would gain censorship powers and take responsibility for content out of students’ hands with the result that legal liability would rest solely on the administration. -db From the Seattle Times, November

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Opinion: Congress copyright bill threat to whistleblowing and Internet

donal brown November 7, 2011

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) under consideration in Congress could result in extensive Internet censorship and threaten the work of human rights advocates and whistleblowers, argues Trevor Timm, an Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer. “[SOPA]threatens to transform copyright law, pushing Internet intermediaries—from Facebook to your ISP—to censor whole swaths of the Internet. SOPA could forever alter social networks, stifle innovation and creativity, and destroy jobs…” and even bring about the end of the Internet as

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