Access to fraternities’ discipline records limited
From USA Today: PHOENIX -- On Nov. 18, 20 members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Arizona State University confronted three members of a rival fraternity at a Tempe, Ariz., apartment complex. The fight ended with a Delta Kappa Epsilon fra ...
A special sneak Preview of OpenTheGovernment 2013 Secrecy Report
From OpenTheGovernment.org: Be on the lookout for the upcoming release of the latest version of our Secrecy Report. As regular readers may know, this report includes multi-year tracking and analysis of indicators of openness and secrecy in the f ...
NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for September 6, 2013
From NFOIC: A few state FOIA and local open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week. While you're at it, be sure to check out State FOIA Friday Archives. Sunshine Law proponents sue city of Groveland read more ...
US and UK spy agencies defeat Internet privacy and security
From The Guardian: US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, accordi ...
Govt to declassify some secret court opinions in response to FOIA lawsuit
From ABC News: The Justice Department is declassifying portions of some secret court orders concerning the government's authority to seize records under the Patriot Act. read more ...
Lawsuit filed to obtain copy of Senate committee’s torture report
From Jason Leopold at The Public Record: Late Monday evening, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice to obtain a copy of the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on ...
Clerical error leads to bogus request to unseal death penalty files
From The Denver Post: It turns out a request to the Colorado Supreme Court to consider unsealing court files in two death penalty cases was never granted in the first place. Rob McCallum of the State Court Administrator's office said a clerical error led to an order to show cause Tuesday regarding the unsealing of court files in the death penalty cases of Sir Mario Owens and Robert Ray. But that had already been denied by the Colorado Supreme Court. The Denver Post reported Thursday that attorneys for Owens and Ray, who are both on death row for the killings ...
Mitchell Daily Republic wins case against Huron (S.D.) schools
From Mitchell Daily Republic: HURON — A copy of a secret agreement that directed nearly $175,000 to an ex-superintendent of the Huron School District must be provided to The Daily Republic, a judge ruled Wednesday. [. . .] In a four-p ...
Utahn debates roles of government spokespersons at National Press Club event
From Salt Lake Tribune: Linda Petersen, president of the Utah Foundation for Open Government, recently participated in a debate over censorship by government public information officers. The event at the National Press Club in Washington ...
Hundreds of pages of NSA spying documents to be released
From Electronic Frontier Foundation: In a major victory in one of EFF's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, the Justice Department conceded yesterday that it will release hundreds of documents, including FISA court opinions, related to the government’s secret interpretation of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the law the NSA has relied upon for years to mass collect the phone records of millions of innocent Americans. read more ...
