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ACLU finds schools censoring lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender websites

donal brown April 18, 2011

The American Civil Liberties Union has discovered that schools in Michigan, Texas, Pennsylvania and Virginia are using filers to block students from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender websites. The ACLU has sent letters to the schools to unlock the sites. The press release outlines the rights of students and the reasons they should have access to the sites, “When used by a public school, programs that block all LGBT content violate First Amendment rights to

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Federal judge punishes private school for distroying records pertaining to alleged sexual crimes

donal brown April 18, 2011

A federal judge applied sanctions against Brooklyn’s Poly Country Day School, its trustees and current and former headmasters for stonewalling access to records that a late football coach allegedly committed a series of sexual molestations on students. In 2009 a number of alums accused the school of covering up the coach’s sexual abuses of dozens of students causing them in their later lives to abuse drugs, attempt suicide and be unable to develop healthy relationships.

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California: Developer alleges open meeting violation in Antioch

donal brown April 18, 2011

A home construction firm is suing the City of Antioch claiming that the City Council discussed a development agreement last month in closed session and changed the terms of a resolution. That would violate the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law. The resolution concerns a $5 million project to widen a road from two to four lanes and a plan by the city to seek reimbursement from the construction firm for the expense. -db

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Video record of same-sex marriage trial in dispute

FAC April 16, 2011

Backers of Proposition 8, the anti same-sex marriage initiative in California, want to restrict use of video recordings of the U.S. District Court trial that ruled the ballot measure unconstitutional. Under a pilot program in the Ninth Circuit, District Court Judge Vaughn Walker permitting video recording during the 12-day trial last year. Walker used an excerpt of the recording in a speech this year at Arizona State University, an action that Prop. 8 backers say

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Obama receives double whammy on transparency record

FAC April 14, 2011

Just as the Obama Administration and BP Oil  found out they’d “won” a 2011 Muzzle Award for restricting media access to the Gulf oil spill, transparency advocates were getting their first look at the 2011 Federal Budget deal struck late last week and wondering how the “Open Gov” Prez could agree to gut funding to his Electronic Government Fund from a proposed $35 million down to $8 million: Ed O’Keefe writes  in the Washington Post’s

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