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Recent news
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News stories recently posted throughout the First Amendment Center Online.
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CIA declassifies WWI-era secret documents
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Released records show cloak-and-dagger techniques spies used to pass secret messages written in invisible ink.
04.20.11
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Pentagon inquiry clears McChrystal of wrongdoing
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Probe questions accuracy of Rolling Stone profile that resulted in general's being dismissed as commander in Afghanistan.
04.19.11
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Ariz. shooting suspect's former college releases records
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Pima Community College's efforts to maintain its routine in wake of Jan. 8 shooting are detailed in release of 3,000 pages of e-mails and documents related to Jared Loughner.
04.18.11
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Pa. newspaper sued for publishing wrong mug shot
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Libel suit accuses Erie Times-News of negligence, but newspaper says it printed correction explaining that jail provided photo of man with similar name.
04.15.11
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Public-broadcasting funding survives largely intact
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Despite defunding effort, federal budget deal preserves most of the money President Obama requested for public TV, radio, PBS chief says.
04.14.11
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Closing sexual-assault trial to minors OK, says Wis. appeals court
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Attorney says his client was denied right to public trial and will appeal decision to state Supreme Court.
04.14.11
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N.M. to require agencies to provide electronic records
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Sponsors of law to take effect on July 1 say some state agencies resisted downloading or sending documents electronically.
04.12.11
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Ill. House votes to bar release of gun owners' names
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Measure would reverse recent ruling by state attorney general's office that list of people with Firearm Owner Identification cards is a public document.
04.11.11
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Ore. judge seals some records in congressman's divorce
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Newspaper had asked court to unseal documents, saying they could shed light on questions that have been raised about David Wu's use of alcohol and pills.
04.10.11
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Records on MLK Day bomb to remain sealed
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Federal judge expresses concern that releasing files would make it difficult for Kevin Harpham, who is charged with planting device along parade route, to receive fair trial.
04.09.11
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Pa. board limits news-media access to 'election central'
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Lancaster County officials vote to bar reporters from warehouse where election night ballots are counted and instead move them to location across the street.
04.08.11
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News media barred from hearing in slaying of NFL player
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News media barred from hearing in slaying of NFL player
Florida judge presiding over trial of men accused of fatally shooting Redskins' Sean Taylor says there's no 'automatic right to be present' at pretrial hearings.
04.07.11
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Federal judge orders national park to release documents
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Timothy Wild had sued seeking records about 2008 confrontation between Acadia National Park rangers and group of people that left him with serious facial injuries.
04.07.11
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Prisoner-rights group sues over refusal of its publications
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By David L. Hudson Jr. Complaint says Sacramento County jail and prison are refusing to deliver copies of Prison Legal News to inmates.
04.06.11
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Obama gets openness award in closed session
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'To have such a meeting not be transparent is the height of irony. How absurd can that be?' says OMB Watch executive director.
04.01.11
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House panel grills Homeland Security officials about FOIA delays
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Oversight committee chairman says agency's now-rescinded practice of requiring political advisers to vet records requests 'reeks of a Nixonian enemies list.'
04.01.11
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9th Circuit blocks judge from unsealing ruling on FBI files
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Three-judge panel says lower court must first redact information government says could compromise national security.
03.31.11
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Wyo. high court orders district to disclose teacher salary data
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'There never was a doubt in our minds that the salaries and the names are public information,' says Tribune Eagle editor.
03.30.11
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E-mails show fed insiders had warned of political 'meddling'
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Congressional hearing later this week to focus on accusations that Obama administration appointees improperly delayed release of government files.
03.28.11
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Utah Legislature votes to repeal contentious open-records law
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Repeal of House Bill 477 passes with strong majority during special session; governor says he'll sign it.
03.28.11
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Federal judge upholds Texas Open Meetings Act
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Court finds law doesn't violate free-speech rights of city council members from Alpine, 11 other Texas cities.
03.28.11
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Utah House votes to repeal open-records changes
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Bill now moves to Senate, where Republican caucus remains split about whether to rescind measure that limited state's sunshine law.
03.25.11
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Federal court throws out lawsuit over ethics-probe leak
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Judge says ex-terrorism prosecutor can't show that government acted willfully and illegally without knowing identity of person who leaked details of investigation to newspaper.
03.25.11
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Minn. high court rebuffs plan to allow cameras in criminal trials
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News organizations hope they can use pilot program in civil courts to prove that recording devices won't be a problem during criminal proceedings.
03.24.11
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Texas bill would bar officials from texting during meetings
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Measure would amend state open-meetings law to prevent government officials from sending electronic messages when they are doing public's business.
03.24.11
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Utah governor calls special session on new open-records law
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'It is clear to me that H.B. 477, both in process and substance, has resulted in a loss of public confidence,' Gary Herbert says; Legislature to consider repeal of controversial measure.
03.22.11
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High court won't consider halting Fed release of loan data
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2nd Circuit had sided with news outlets, ruling that documents naming financial companies helped during financial crisis weren't automatically exempt from FOIA requests.
03.21.11
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Roadblocks, inconsistencies slow Obama's transparency drive
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Exasperating delays, denials of FOIA requests affect journalists, ordinary citizens, researchers and businesses, and they frustrate administration's goal to be most transparent in history.
03.19.11
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House votes to cut federal funds to NPR
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Democratic opponents call measure ideological attack that would deprive local stations of access to news, other programs.
03.18.11
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5 inductees join FOIA Hall of Fame
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News release Jennifer LaFleur, Sean Moulton, Tony Mauro, David C. Vladeck and Anne Weismann make up 2011 class.
03.18.11
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