Oct. 05, 2011
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Michael Morton walked out of a Texas prison with much to be thankful for: Great appellate lawyers and the Innocence Project. The probative, scientific certainty of DNA. A justice system which, despite humongous flaws, will own up and admit mistakes, at least when faced with indisputable evidence.
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October 5, 2011
From SPLC:
KANSAS — The Student Press Law Center and a college journalist filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Johnson County Community College in Kansas for excessive fees to release open records, including nearly $10,000 to produce one day’s worth of emails.
The college estimated a total of $24,130.72 to fulfill requests by the SPLC and former copy editor Marcus Clem for staff emails and documents related to other open records requests.
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Newly elected official among attendees at Sunshine Law forum in Daytona
DAYTONA BEACH — A seminar at Daytona State College may have set Orange City councilman-elect Michael G. Wright on the right path when it comes to Florida's Sunshine Law.
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September 28, 2011
From W3C:
Governments worldwide expend significant resources to gather, curate and in many cases publish open government content. However, with the ever growing amount of digital content, if that information is not easily accessible nor readily re-usable, it might as well not exist.
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September 28, 2011
From Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press:
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September 28, 2011
From azcentral.com:
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September 26, 2011
From News Times (Danbury, CT) managing editor Jacqueline Smith:
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[A] new state law, slipped in surreptitiously as an amendment in the waning hours of the legislative session of the General Assembly, makes research of medical records at places like Connecticut Valley all but impossible.
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A few items selected from many of interest in the last few days.
Whistleblowers, intelligence experts, and veterans join Electronic Frontier Foundation in fight against 'state secrets'
San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of whistleblowers, intelligence experts, and veterans urged a federal appeals court Wednesday to reject government attempts to bury yet another lawsuit challenging illegal surveillance with baseless claims of "state secrets."
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September 22, 2011
Opinion posted at Vienna Patch from Megan Rhyne, executive director of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government, a member of NFOIC:
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