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Saturday, January 20, 2007 12:11 AM

Armenian journalists ciritical of three-year-old FOI law

Read more at Armenia NowThe Freedom of Information Law of Armenia adopted in 2003 is good, but its application is not good enough. This opinion dominated the “Freedom of Information” workshop in Tsaghkadzor on January 17-18 attended by more
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 12:06 AM

A public meeting by any other name is still a public meeting

Read more at the Flint JournalGENESEE COUNTY, Mich. - Members of the county Board of Commissioners will stop "leadership" meetings held behind closed doors, ending a long-standing practice that shut the public out of discussions on sometimes controversial
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 12:01 AM

Judge: allow reporter into future news conferences

Associated Press via First Amendment Center TOLEDO, Ohio — A federal judge has told the mayor’s office that a radio reporter who was barred from attending a news conference must be allowed into future news events. U.S. District Judge James Carr
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