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Researchers from Stanford and Oregon are asking the California Department of Corrections to stop withholding records on race and ethnicity. The researchers hope to use the data to devise an AI system to flag improperly influenced parole denials . (San Francisco Chronicle, May 22, 2020, by Megan Cassidy) The EFF filed a lawsuit for the researchers. The researchers made their first request for the records in September of 2018, but the corrections department cited exemptions

With no permanent inspector general for Health and Human Services, oversight falters for the Trump administration’s performance regarding the coronavirus pandemic. While watchdog groups say the acting inspector general Christi Grimm is doing her best, she doesn’t have the independence to resist pressure from the administration. In this vacuum, it may be left to whistleblowers to step up with critical information.(Government Executive, March 20, 2020, by Courtney Buble) The Electronic Frontier Foundation and 100 other

The California Fourth District Court of Appeals reversed a ruling by a superior court judge that prevented a blogger from publishing Fullerton city hall documents regarding police misconduct. The blogger, Joshua Ferguson, and a colleague obtained the records from the city’s Dropbox Account. The city called the records “stolen.” The appeals court blocked the lower court order while it considers the case. As FAC’s David Snyder has explained, such prior restraint is unconstitutional. (Voice of