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Transparency coming to police one city at a time

[…] alone in releasing police videos, although it appears to be the first CA county to adopt a policy of disclosure. Several other municipalities have opted, on an ad hoc basis, to release videos of officer-involved shootings in specific cases. In doing so they are responding to broad-based public pressure. Polls show voters overwhelmingly support […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 24, 2016
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Transcript: Protest & Pushback

[…] voice: "Really remarkable, if you look at the breadth of this, this is the strongest anti-rioting, pro-law enforcement legislation in the country."] We spoke to journalists and advocates about their own experiences watching a historic moment unfold to understand the role of the First Amendment in social justice movements. Through their lenses, we look […]
- Free Expression
December 6, 2021
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The U.S. is alone among western democracies in protecting “hate speech.” Chalk it up to a healthy fear of government censorship.

[…] fundamentally different views about the role of free speech in a democracy. France, hardly an intolerant or autocratic country, imposes criminal fines for racial epithets, Holocaust-denial, anti-immigrant advocacy and other forms of "hate speech." And the French are not alone. To varying degrees, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada--liberal democracies, all--enforce […]
- Free Expression
March 14, 2011
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The Powerful anti-SOPA protests show why corporations, too, need First Amendment rights

BY PETER SCHEER---Successful technology firms pride themselves on their capacity to disrupt the established order. The reference is usually to a technological advance that poses an existential threat to an entrenched industry or way of doing business. Think of Apple Computer's impact on the cellphone and music industries, Google on the sale and delivery […]
- Free Expression
January 20, 2012
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The First Amendment protects journalists using Snowden’s documents. But what about Snowden?

[…] he is now more concerned about neutralizing US military and intelligence capabilities than he is about exposing excesses and wrongdoing. But Snowden has also caused the Obama administration to reexamine NSA programs and to take steps to open some national security decision-making to public scrutiny. These are positive and important developments. If it also […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 22, 2013
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The first amendment is in trouble when EU bureaucrats get to decide what US citizens can read on US-based websites

[…] government has been on the sidelines of Google’s battles with the EU (which is also pressing an antitrust investigation against Google). Relations between Google and the Obama Administration have chilled considerably as a result of revelations about the excesses of US intelligence agencies (which, quite apart from their harm to civil liberties, have hurt […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
December 15, 2014
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Taxpayers Going Postal Over Public Employee Pensions, Perks. Unions’ miscalculation: Opting for secrecy.

[…] than cultivate voter support for their objectives, they could exert more influence in the Legislature, and in the political process generally, by lavishing campaign contributions on lawmakers. Adopting the tactics of other special interest groups, government unions paid lip service to democratic principles while excelling at the fundamentally anti-democratic strategy of writing checks to […]
- Free Expression
June 11, 2010
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Steve Jobs vs. The Beatles, and other thoughts on the passing of a superstar

October 7, 2011
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Special Commentary | You Have the Right to Record Law Enforcement Officers — Including at the Border

[…] agency policy. Concerned that the officers were abusing their authority, Mr. Ramirez took a dozen or so photographs on his cell phone. While doing so, he was standing outside on the United States side of the border and recording publicly visible law enforcement activity — which is protected by the First Amendment. Yet federal […]
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- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 9, 2022
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SCOTUS is about to bring down hammer on public sector unions. That will be good for democracy, not so good for freedom of speech.

[…] amount) by public sector workers who choose not to join the union. A majority of the Court appears persuaded that such arrangements, requiring workers to support union advocacy of positions with which they may disagree, constitute "coerced speech" in violation of the first amendment. The Court’s prior cases have permitted these arrangements as necessary […]
- Free Expression
January 20, 2016