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Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:34 PM

Going out swinging: Tucson case victory for FOI

The Tucson Citizen is likely to go out of business next month, but at least it's going out swinging. The small afternoon daily (the little guy in the city's JOA with the Arizona Daily Star), is expected to close next month unless Gannett can find a buyer,
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:52 AM

Treasury can't blow off FOIA request, judge says

Sometimes it takes a rap with a gavel to get agencies to follow the law. Last week a federal judge ordered the Treasury Department to responde to a FOIA request from Fox News for documents regarding the financial bailout. See the Reporters Committee Web
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Sunday, February 22, 2009 4:41 PM

Truth no longer a libel defense in First Circuit

A federal court case in the First Circuit (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island) decided that truth can be libelous if it is written maliciously with intentional ill will. Gads, this is bad case law that starts making us look more and more
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:42 PM

Open records law proposals posted online by state

Sunshine Review is a great Web site, and now it is posting proposed legislation for each state. Check out the list and see what is going on in your state. If they are missing something, feel free to let them know so they can add it. Skimming the
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:26 PM

Urge your U.S. Rep. to pass the federal shield law

This week the U.S. House of Representatives reintroduced the Free Flow of Information Act (H.R. 985) that would provide a federal shield law to protect journalists from arbitrary subpoenas. Most states have their own protections, but it's time to get
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:16 PM

Georgia paper gets police to post daily incident reports online

The Savannah Morning News brought a little sunshine to Georgia after persuading the Savannah-Chatham County police to post a daily list of incident reports online. The paper also got a little help from the state attorney general, who said the police violated
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:02 PM

Federal documents now searchable via new Google-like online search system

The U.S. Government Printing Office launched a new Google-based search system for finding federal records, called the Federal Digital System (FDsys). According to a story by Ed O'Keefe of The Washington Post, the government spent $20 million since
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