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Vermont Legislature to postpone action on record exemptions

From burlingtonfreepress.com: MONTPELIER — The House takes up a short bill Tuesday morning that postpones decisions about public records exemptions until 2014 to allow for the Legislature’s legal staff to comb the statutes one las ...

Arlington board OKs sharing website code with open-source community

From Arlington Patch: With a nod to the open government movement, the Arlington County Board this weekend unanimously approved making portions of the programming behind the county website publicly available. read more ...

NEFAC disappointed top military court won’t open Manning trial

Opinion from our friends at NEFAC (New England First Amendment Coalition): read more ...

CISPA plan to let feds receive confidential data wins big House vote

From CNET news: The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a controversial data-sharing bill that would authorize e-mail and Internet providers to share confidential information with the federal government. read more ...

Blogger need not reveal sources, judge says in extending Shield Law

From Law.com: A state court judge has extended the protections of New Jersey's newspersons' Shield Law to independent bloggers, even those who crusade against perceived government corruption and mismanagement. Superior Court Judge Karen Cassidy on April 12 quashed a prosecutor's subpoena of Tina Renna, president of the Union County Watchdog Association, who posts frequently on a website called "The County Watchers." read more ...

Teen wins appeal in Pennsylvania school open-records request

From SFGate.com: read more ...

The Freedom From Information Act

From Thomas Clayburn, editor-at-large, Information Week: In June 2007, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to learn more about the basis for Google's complaint that Microsoft's implementation of desktop search in Windows Vista violated the terms of its 2002 antitrust consent agreement. read more ...