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A&A: School district denies request for annual audit

FAC July 27, 2011

Q: The local school district  responded to my request for copies of the proposals submitted for annual bond performance audits as follows, ”The District is unable to produce the requested information until after the contract has been awarded.”  What is your opinion? A: Unfortunately, there is a California Supreme Court decision in which the court said that a response to a request for proposal (“RFP”) was not required to be disclosed to the public during

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A&A: Are worker’s comp claims public documents?

FAC July 27, 2011

Q: Are worker’s comp claims public documents, and, if so, can I file the standard public records’ request with the local public institution involved? A: California’s Labor Code provides that “[e]xcept as expressly permitted [elsewhere in the statute], a person or public or private entity not a party to a claim for workers’ compensation benefits may not obtain individually identifiable information obtained or maintained by the division on that claim. For purposes of this section,

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Europe’s high court allow Cyprus to punish for discriminatory content

donal brown July 26, 2011

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Cypriot broadcasting authority actions to protect children and consumers by censoring racial and gender discrimination violated no human rights. “Infractions included undisclosed product placement, lack of objectivity in news reports, disrespecting victims of crime, and the airing material unsuitable for children and youth. Sigma was also penalized for broadcasting statements ‘offensive and disrespectful … of Arabs, Russian women and women in general,’” reports Sonya Angelica Diehn for

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New York: Group seeks to overturn same-sex marriage law with open meetings suit

donal brown July 26, 2011

New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms has filed suit in New York claiming the state’s Open Meetings Law was violated in passing the law giving gays the right to marry. Among other things the group claims the Republicans met in secret to discuss the law. The challenge is not expected to succeed at least on one count since the Republicans met as a party rather than as a Senate majority, a maneuver meant to skirt the

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FBI tries to block book by whistleblower

donal brown July 25, 2011

A flounder of a national whistleblowers group has sued the FBI for preventing her from publishing a book though she claims the book contains no classified information. Sibel D. Edmonds had worked for the FBI after 9/11 as a contractor rather than an employee and said that many of her reports about misconduct of co-workers were not fully investigated and that she was fired for her reports. -db From the Courthouse News Service, July 25,

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