From Library Journal:
Judicial Watch, a Washington, DC-based conservative public interest group, is suing the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), frustrated that more than a year has passed since it first filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s (D-NY) office diary, day planner, telephone log book, and other [...]
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Conservative Group Targets Hillary Clinton’s Papers in Presidential Library
California State Supreme Court rules police officers’ names, salaries public
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
The public has the right to know the names of police officers and the salaries of local and state government employees, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday in two cases in which government agencies had challenged the news media’s access to personnel information.
Columbia Law School Launches Free Database of U.S. Court Decisions
From Columbia Law School:
Aiming to make federal case law fast and easy to search, more accessible to the public – and free – Columbia Law School and the University of Colorado Law School have launched a Web site called AltLaw.org, which has the potential to transform the national landscape of case law resources.
AltLaw.org contains nearly [...]
Yahoo rejects human rights lawsuit
From CNN:
Yahoo Inc. has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit over the company’s alleged role in the imprisonment of two Chinese dissidents, arguing U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over Chinese government actions against its own citizens.
Beijing police launch virtual Web patrols to scare surfers from illegal sites
From the Mercury News:
Police in China’s capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user’s browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.
Starting Sept. 1, the cartoon alerts will appear every half hour on 13 [...]
South African Act could censor librarians, writers, artists
From the Independent Online:
Proposed amendments to the Film and Publications Act of 1996 could have severe censorship consequences for librarians, writers, artists, academics and those in the publishing industry.
Freedom of Expression Director Jane Duncan announced this at the World Library and Information Congress in Durban on Wednesday.
Duncan said that these sectors could be subjected to [...]
EPA Union Says Decision Bolsters Its Position In Library Closure Talks
From the Risk Policy Report: (Subscription required)
In a case brought against EPA by an agency union challenging a decision to dismantle a library network widely used to research health risks and regulatory issues, union officials say they are confident about succeeding with their argument that the agency engaged in unfair labor practices in dismantling the [...]
Australian Teen hacks ‘useless’ Govt porn filter
From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
A Melbourne teenager who has managed to circumvent the Federal Government’s internet pornography filter has described it as “completely useless”.
Earlier this month Prime Minister John Howard announced that the filter would be made available free to every family.
But 16-year-old Melbourne student Tom Wood says he was able to completely override the [...]
Howard row over Wikipedia edits
From the BBC:
Staff in the Australian prime minister’s department have been accused of editing potentially damaging entries in online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
Workers made 126 edits on subjects such as immigration policy and Treasurer Peter Costello, a local daily said.
Scholarly Publishers Launch PRISM Coalition
From Information Today:
The Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine (PRISM) is a coalition launched with developmental support from the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers to alert Congress to the unintended consequences of government interference in scientific and scholarly publishing. The group has launched a Web site at www.prismcoalition.org, where [...]