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A&A: City rules complaintant names are always withheld

FAC December 28, 2010

Q: I have requested the name of a complainant against me in a Building Code Enforcement case. There have been anonymous harassment events in my neighborhood that the complaint may be linked to. The agency declined to release the name, citing the 6255 catch-all provision in the city regulation that says the public interest clearly outweighs the release of complainant names in all cases (City of San Jose v. Superior Ct. 74 Cal.App.4th 1008). I

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Net Neutrality primer draws a picture of pay-per-click future

FAC December 27, 2010

When Verizon offered an Android-platform phone that only allowed the Bing search engine, locking out Google and all others, web designer Michael Ciarlo became an activist for Net Neutrality. His simple primer at TheOpenInter.Net should help to bring the geeky subject into focus for the rest of us. from Why I Created TheOpenInter.net By Michael Ciarlo “I created TheOpenInter.net to depict a time in the future when ISPs control the Internet and all data is

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UK Guardian gives bloggers tool to freely repost entire articles

FAC December 25, 2010

As the copyright Scrooges at Righthaven add newspaper giant Media News to their client list and start suing for reuse of graphics, the UK Guardian has delivered a gift to WordPress bloggers–and by extension all who are concerned with the free exchange of information and the future of  journalism. The plugin is free, the content is free: “The catch? The bloggers must publish article in full without any modifications, and along with the content comes

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Free speech: Texas cheerleader wants Supreme Court to decide if required to cheer for abuser

donal brown December 24, 2010

San Francisco Chronicle December 23, 2010 By Bob Egelko A Texas high school cheerleader kicked off the squad for refusing to cheer for a player she said raped her has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate her suit against the school district. She is asking the Court to reverse federal court rulings that ordered her to reimburse the school district for over $45,000 in legal costs. Click here for the full story.  -db

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Columbia j-school honors Brugmann for “raising hell and printing the news”

FAC December 22, 2010

Bruce Brugmann, founding editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and First Amendment Coalition board member, has been named as a 2011 Alumni Award winner by Columbia J-School. Brugmann, who graduated from Columbia in 1958, will be honored at ceremonies in April alongside three other recipients of the 2011 Alumni Award:  HRH Rym Ali; NBC News correspondent Rehema Ellis; and Orlando Sentinel government/politics editor Robert Shaw. In announcing the winners, Columbia-J School described Brugmann’s 40-years

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