Search

Categories

Total Results

No Record Found

View All Results
DONATE

privacy

Media but not public admitted to Los Angeles juvenile court proceedings

donal brown February 6, 2012

The presiding judge for the L.A. County Juvenile Court ordered the courts open to the media but not the public. The court had previously barred the media and public from cases of child abuse, foster care and adoption. The parties involved in a case can still make a compelling case to close doors. From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, February 3, 2012, by Rachel Bunn. Full story

Read More »

California appeals court rules sexual harassment complaint against teacher public record

donal brown January 26, 2012

A Santa Monica math teacher lost a lawsuit in a California appeals court to keep a sexual harassment complaint against him private. The court found substantial public interest in the release of details of the investigation into a parent’s charge that the teacher sexually harassed his thirteen-year-old daughter. The charge was not fully substantiated. -db From the Metropolitan News-Enterprise, January 25, 2012, by Kenneth Ofgang. Full story  

Read More »

Appeal in the works in Twitter/WikiLeaks case

donal brown January 23, 2012

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are set to file an appeal concerning the U.S. government’s attempts to obtain Twitter records in their investigation of WikiLeaks. The ACLU and EFF are seeking to prevent the government from sealing records of their efforts to obtain private information of Internet users without a warrant. -db From a press release by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, January 20, 2012. Full release  

Read More »

California: Federal judge to decide fate of documents concerning origins of 2007 wildfire

donal brown January 19, 2012

A U.S. district judge will hear arguments on a challenge by the Sacramento Bee to the sealing of arguments in a legal dispute between the federal government and Sierra Pacific Industries over how a 2007 wildfire began and who should pay for the destruction. Sierra Pacific disputes the contention that the fire was sparked by a bulldozer owned by  one of their contractors. -db From the Sacramento Bee, January 19, 2012, by Denny Walsh. Full

Read More »