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CA Senate Bill 1421 Would Bring Desperately Needed Transparency to Police Misconduct Files

[…] made public if the charges are "well-founded," or if discipline is imposed. California has long been an outlier in the degree to which it allows records created by law enforcement to be kept out of public view. Many if not most states require, for example, the disclosure of police reports; California does not. Of […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 9, 2018
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Brown vetoes bill limiting cellphone searches by police

Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed SB 914, a bill sponsored by the First Amendment Coalition that would have required police to get a warrant before searching through the smart phones and other electronic devices of people they arrest. The bill would have overridden a recent California Supreme Court decision allowing warrantless searches of cellphones. […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 11, 2011
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Brown signs SB 1300, but calls on Legislature to fix public access issues

[…] SB 1300 limit access rights in several ways. In addition to putting requesters at risk of having to pay oil companies' attorney's fees, SB 1300, as signed by the Governor, would: 1) Empower oil companies, when filing reports with state agencies, to designate information as "trade secrets"—which are exempt from release under the PRA—even […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 17, 2014
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Wikileaks didn’t just happen. It exists because journalists have lost control over their information.

[…] the Times' articles, which inevitably invite comparison to the "Pentagon Papers" of an earlier generation and an earlier war, were supplied to the Times not by a government source, but by wikileaks.org, a shadowy and stateless website specializing in publishing sensitive records leaked anonymously from the files of governments and corporations. Why wikileaks? If […]
- Press Freedom
July 29, 2010
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Whining college students need lessons in tolerance and free speech

BY PETER SCHEER---There’s nothing like the massacre of 129 Parisian civilians at the hands of jihadi sociopaths, utterly convinced that their barbarism manifests the will of God, to provide some perspective on the recent whinings of students at a number of America’s most elite colleges and universities. For the past few weeks, students […]
- Free Expression
November 18, 2015
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Victory: California Appeal Court Orders Records Unsealed

[…] information such as medical information should be redacted and then the records unsealed. "Based on our review of the entire record, we conclude that the documents sought by appellants were improperly sealed, not only because the trial court failed to make the required statutory findings, but because less restrictive means exist to protect respondent’s […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 15, 2020
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Unanimous Supreme Court OKs duplicative FOIA suit

The Supreme Court ruled today in a federal FOIA case that a person contesting an agency's denial of a record request may file his own suit for disclosure, even though he seeks the very same records that the agency denied in a prior case in which the agency prevailed in court. The case […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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The SEC should go forward with a rule requiring corporations to publicly disclose their campaign contributions.

If you believe public corporations should be required to disclose their political campaign contributions, there’s a simple solution. It is the solution that is being considered by the Securities Exchange Commission in Washington-- namely, to treat contributions as material transactions and, on that basis, require that they be disclosed, like profits, losses, lawsuits, etc, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 14, 2013
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Thanks to AG’s threats to indict press in leak cases, reporters need not rely on 1st Amendment to protect sources. They can take the Fifth.

[…] one is implicitly admitting guilt. In fact, the Fifth amendment does not so much imply guilt as it does a refusal to be of assistance to the government in meeting its burden of proving guilt. Why offer to help a prosecutor who wants to put you in jail? But even if the implication of […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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Statement on Judge’s Ruling in Public Access Case Against Kern County Superior Court

[…] means it’s now a violation of a federal judge’s order if court security do not take reasonable steps to admit members of the public to court proceedings by notifying the judicial officer of the request for access."The Superior Court is in this position, in part, because it failed to implement meaningful alternatives such as […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 2, 2020