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Transparency bill for public utilities dies in California state legislature

donal brown May 22, 2012

A catastrophic Pacific Gas and Electric 2010 pipeline explosion in San Bruno, CA that killed eight and wiped out 35 homes did not provide sufficient fuel for a transparency measure that required utility regulators to supply investigation orders and accident reports to the public. The bill failed in the state Senate. -db From the Los Angeles Times, May 21, 201. Full story  

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Agency investigating GSA for travel fraud refusing to release records

donal brown May 14, 2012

The office of the Inspector General for the General Services Administration has refused a Freedom of Information Act request for documents on their investigation of GSA travel fraud saying to release the documents would jeopardize the investigation. As part of the inquiry, the Inspector General is looking into the profligate spending at a 2010 GSA conference in Las Vegas. -db From The Washington Times, May 10, 2012, by Jim McElhatton. Full story  

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Federal court shields Google/NSA partnership from public scrutiny

donal brown May 14, 2012

The U.S. Court of Appeals from D.C. ruled that interchanges between Google and the National Security Agency on cybersecurity and encryption are not part of the public record. The Electronic Privacy Information Center used a Freedom of Information Act request to seek the records following a cyber attack against Google in 2012. -db From The Blog of Legal Times, May 11, 2012, by Mike Scarcella. Full story

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California: Shasta courts admits error and releases records of 2400 criminal cases

donal brown May 10, 2012

At the insistence of The Redding Record Searchlight that records of some 2400 criminal cases were being withheld illegally, the Shasta County Superior Court finally examined their policy, found no basis for it and released the records. The court was withholding records of criminal cases involving arrest warrants. -db From The Redding Record Searchlight, May 8, 2012, by Sean Longoria. Full story

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Federal judge backs Obama in his refusal to release bin Laden photos

donal brown April 27, 2012

President Barack Obama won a battle in federal court this week when the judge rejected a request from Judicial Watch to force the administration to release photos and video of the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last year. The judge refused to overrule the CIA  and Defense Department in its claim that the records would bring national security risks. -db From Reuters, April 26, 2012, by Jeremy Pelofsky and James Vicini. Full

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