Twenty patients of an oncology clinic in the Dallas area were sickened by medical syringes contaminated with bacteria. The bacterium, called Serratia marcescens, can cause fever and chills but generally responds to antibiotics. Some of the Dallas-area patients became so … Continued
Pennsylvania legislative leaders have paid out-of-state companies $466,000 this year to conduct focus groups and public-opinion surveys. Even though the polls have been paid for by taxpayer dollars, the politicians have refused to release the results. Politicians are afraid of … Continued
Should adult adoptees have access to their birth records and be able to learn the identity of their birth parents? It is a question with two sides, that of the adoptee and that of the adoptee’s biological parents. On one … Continued
Nearly two dozen North Texas cities have passed laws prohibiting sex offenders from living within 1,000 or 2,000 feet of schools, day-care centers, parks and other places frequented by children. The attached Dallas Morning News story appears to argue that … Continued
Marjorie Cohn, a professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, said that a Web site that publishes photos of convicted prostitutes violates the women’s right to privacy. “It’s an incredible invasion of the privacy of the … Continued
Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized. After all what could … Continued
Bridge inspection reports can legally remain secret, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office has decided. Bridge maintenance is a life and death matter as so clearly proven by the recent I35 Minneapolis bridge collapse. In 1990, the Minneapolis bridge was … Continued
In this recent story writer Frank Miele attacks the New York Times’ decision to publish classified military secrets. His argument is that publication endangered Americans and essentially amounted to treason. The Open Records Project would agree with part of Miele’s … Continued
Presidents don’t have indefinite veto power over which records are made public after they’ve left office, a federal judge has ruled. Some presidents might be embarrassed by their records in office. Public disclosure could tarnish their finely tuned “legacy.” Following … Continued
Iran’s judiciary has sealed off the offices of a popular news Web site critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s policies after journalists continued to update it despite official filtering, the Web site said. The site, when accessed via a link outside … Continued