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FAC Co-Signs Letter in Support of Journalism Students at L.A. City College

[…] perspectives of students. Colleges must treat student journalists with respect as they conduct their reporting and develop their career skills. The LA City College censorship has been covered by the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Collegian. "It's past time for the college administration to correct this situation. Send out a college-wide legal […]
- Press Freedom
May 31, 2023
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Why the doom-and-gloom about the settlement in the Wen Ho Lee case? Under the circumstances, this deal is a victory for the press

[…] join in a settlement of an invasion of privacy lawsuit filed by Wen Ho Lee, an atomic scientist once suspected of espionage. Lee had sued the federal government for its leaking of damaging information about him to the press, which, in a flurry of articles in 1998, had rushed to the apparently premature judgment […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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What kind of Governor would Jerry Brown be? Don’t try to check his gubernatorial record. It’s locked up until 2038.

[…] confidentiality to its ex-governors' records for a longer time. Presidential records, after all, are far more likely to contain sensitive information concerning security, diplomatic relations or similar government interests. Yet California law maintains a blackout on its gubernatorial records for an additional thirty-eight years. Under California's 50-year rule, most people who vote in a […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 18, 2009
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US relaxes gag order, permitting Google, Facebook et al to disclose scope of NSA access. But what if the firms don’t know the extent of NSA access?

[…] hardly matters how scrupulous the agency is in adhering to applicable legal rules restricting access through Google's front door. Google of course can't be transparent about the government's access to customer information when Google itself is aware of only part of that access. And Google's customers, particularly its customers residing outside the US, will […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 4, 2014
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Unplug Wikileaks? Enact a Federal Shield Law Instead

[…] has made no secret of its desire to unplug wikileaks, the whistleblower website infamous for data dumps of classified records. Of the few options available to the government, the best is one that probably hasn't been considered in this context: enacting a federal Shield Law. How would a Shield Law–a version of which has […]
- Press Freedom
November 16, 2010
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UCLA Turns Over Video of Contentious Event with Treasury Secretary After Public Records Requests Flood in

The University of California Los Angeles has turned over video footage of a contentious event with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in which he was interrupted by heckling student protesters. The university initially refused to publish the material after Mnuchin’s "revoked his consent" for it to be shared publicly, but the school eventually gave […]
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- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 12, 2018
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Time to shed light on CalPERS’ private equity investments

[…] in federal court last week was shocking even by CalPERS’ standards. Frederico Buenrostro, CalPERS' top official from 2002 to 2008, acknowledged in his plea agreement with the government that he had taken $200,000 in cash bribes, delivered in paper bags and shoe boxes, to influence CalPERS’ investment decisions in private equity funds. The paper […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 15, 2014
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Time to Bring California’s Open Meeting Law into the 21st Century

[…] Corporations in today’s economy couldn’t function without email (or text messaging or online collaboration tools like Google Docs). But city council members are forbidden to discuss government business using group email; indeed, doing so is a crime (albeit one that is almost never prosecuted). Group email is forbidden because communications among a majority […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 30, 2015
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The ongoing push for police transparency

[…] apply to other records, SB 1421 and SB 16 specifically reject it for the records covered by those laws. We will continue to demand compliance with open- government laws. We know there can be no accountability without transparency. — David Loy, Legal Director, First Amendment Coalition Use our open-government resources: Bookmark our Police Transparency […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 18, 2022
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The Hannity Reveal Was Huge News — But Everyone Missed The Most Important Point

[…] in most types of court proceedings must justify that request by showing the sealing of documents is "strictly and inescapably necessary" in order to protect a "compelling government interest." In layman’s terms, that means it should be very difficult to do what Cohen’s lawyers wanted to do—submit secret information to a court. Everyone has […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 8, 2018