Should AIDS Infected Individuals be Public?

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

The Internet Defeats Censorship

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

Nazi Files Still Secret 60 Years Later

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

Free Speech Advocate Proposes Censorship

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

The Child Online Protection Act is Dead

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

Venezuela and Argentina Rig Economic Reports

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

Should Juvenile Records be Secret?

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

Should Suspended Licenses Be Public?

A Waterford Township man arrested last month for operating under the influence of liquor and driving on a suspended/revoked license has eight prior suspensions and nine drunken driving convictions. In any given year, about 300,000 of Michigan’s 7.2 million licensed … Continued

Former Maoist Discusses European Freedom

Europe’s citizens must be on their guard against political correctness and moralising politicians, says the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. The former Portuguese premier and centre-Right politician is concerned that freedom can … Continued

Free Speech vs. Anonymous Online Trashing

Today a Wall Street Journal editorial describes the personal devastation caused by online postings to a college WEB blog autoadmit.com The Open Records defense of public posting of information is that blog posting is free speech. The argument becomes a … Continued