Media organizations ask the California Supreme Court to hear Californians Aware and Voice of OC’s case
From Voice of OC: The Los Angeles Times, the corporate parent of the Orange County Register and the 800-member California Newspaper Publishers Association are urging the state Supreme Court to overturn a gag order obtained by Orange County that ...
Court records reveal terror suspect who escaped UK surveillance was suing UK authorities
From The Washington Post: LONDON — A terror suspect who vanished after switching into women’s clothes at a London mosque is seeking damages from the British government for alleged complicity in torture and mistreatment, the U.K.’s High Court revealed Thursday. Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, 27, evaded stringent government surveillance when he disappeared Friday wearing a burka. Police are still searching for him. read more ...
iFOIA’s new site features tracking
From Investigative Reporting Workshop: iFOIA, a free online system to create, send and track federal and state records requests, is now up and running. After nearly a year of project development, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (R ...
Judicial Watch forces Clinton Library to release 57,000 pages of records on Hillary Health Care Task Force
From Standard Newswire: WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2013 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch announced today that on October 17, 2013, thanks to Judicial Watch litigation, the public gained access to more than 57,000 pages of previously withheld documen ...
Anti-war site, upon notifying FBI of cyber-threat, became surveillance target
From RT: The Federal Bureau of Investigation spent years conducting surveillance on a prominent libertarian anti-war web site, in part because the agency mistakenly believed that the activist page had tried to hack the FBI's own site, according to a new report. FBI documents viewed by the The Guardian reveal that an investigation into Antiwar.com was motivated by an examination of a “threat” that planned to “hack the FBI web site.” Yet the site never threatened any such thing. read more ...
United States vows to modernize FOIA, expand open data in updated national action plan
From FierceGovernmentIT: The United States says it will expand open data and modernize the Freedom of Information Act as part of six new transparent government commitments made in an updated national action plan released by the White House Oct. 31 ...
Center for Digital Government and National League of Cities congratulate 2013 Digital Cities Survey winners
From Digital Journal: SACRAMENTO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 7, 2013) - e.Republic's Center for Digital Government and the Digital Communities Program today announced the top-ranked cities in the 2013 Digital Cities Survey. read more ...
Opinion: Open data’s business value isn’t that important
From Sunlight Foundation: The recent Open Government Partnership meetings in London have provided a good opportunity to assess the direction of our community. The latest comes from Jonathan Gray, and the title -- Open government should be about ac ...
Open government groups urge government to reject farm bill that could keep agriculture information secret
From NFOIC: Open government groups, including NFOIC members and allies, are urging House and Senate conferees to remove provisions from the Farm Bill that provides for increased government secrecy regarding agricultural and livestock operations ...
Mayor Elect de Blasio: Set NYPD records free!
From MuckRock: The New York Police Department's animus toward Freedom of Information requests is legendary, and mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has been one of the department's most outspoken critics. As de Blasio takes the City Hall reins, transparenc ...
