The oldest reported Freedom of Information Act request in the federal government resides at the Justice Department and is 18 years old — or, as the National Security Archive, a research group that tracks these things, likes to say, “old … Continued
The publically funded federal agency that traditionally keeps tabs on earmarks, the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service (CRS), has announced it no longer will respond to requests from congressional members on the number or scale of earmarks. This, because … Continued
Corporate America’s traditional secrecy on political spending is under attack from an investor drive for greater transparency before the 2008 presidential election campaign. Now that pension fund managers are facing vast shortages in pension fund balances they are going to … Continued
Giovanni Mola, 38, who claimed to have had 200 lovers, refused to wear condoms after starting a relationship with the woman in Edinburgh in 2003. His lover is now infected. We have argued for several years that the AIDS epidemic … Continued
According to Internet guru, John Gilmore, “The net treats censorship as damage and routes around it.” The technologies that provide anonymity to the paedophile and the terrorist also protect the political dissident and the whistle-blower. In that sense, Internet open … Continued
Sixty years after the fall of the Third Reich, the secret Nazi archive with millions of files on concentration camps and their victims is still being kept secret. Two benefits of the open records process are: – Changing human behavior … Continued
Kai Chen wants to establish a free speech corner in a city park in Alhambra, California, even though last month he demanded that a piece of art in a City Hall exhibit be taken down. Societies that support free speech … Continued
A federal judge has ruled that The Child Online Protection Act is unconstitional. Open Records Project activism against sex offenders dates nearly to the dawn of the Internet. However, trying to write a law limiting Internet publishing in any way … Continued
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Argentine counterpart Nestor Kirchner, facing the fastest price increases in Latin America, are employing a new tool to bring down their inflation rates: control the data collectors. Governments often mislead their citizens as a … Continued
Oakland Circuit Judge Wendy Potts sentenced Matthew Grundy and Jared Foote, both 17, to two years probation and ordered them to pay $23,000 in restitution Wednesday for their role in vandalism Dec. 20 that left dozens of schools buses with … Continued