Tension between privacy and transparency is leading the discussion surrounding legislation that would keep certain police body camera footage from being seen.
More states are considering net neutrality legislation in the wake of last year’s Federal Communications Commission decision to begin dismantling net neutrality regulations passed during the Obama administration.
When UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee released records about sexual misconduct complaints to news organizations last month, they heavily redacted the documents and refused to identify numerous employees who were found to have committed wrongdoing.
Detroit took longer than expected to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests at the end of 2017, thanks to an ambiguity in Michigan’s government transparency laws.
Illinois’ treasurer is using college savings funds to leverage companies to change for social good. His office calls it common sense, but it’s being criticized as political activism.
If you read the digital headlines in the wake of Tuesday’s gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, you’d swear that you woke up three years into the future and forgot to vote in the 2020 presidential election.
If government starts down that road of censoring social media sites like Facebook, whose speech rights will it go after next?
“All governments, especially local governments, will succumb to public pressure.”
Stories about governments suing people who file Freedom of Information Act requests as a means of cloaking their activity sends shivers down columnist's spine.
When the press is used to spread propaganda and mistruths, it is a betrayal of their binding code as guardians of the truth. Journalists are not assassins, but conveyors of facts.
Tension between privacy and transparency is leading the discussion surrounding legislation that would keep certain police body camera footage from being seen.
More states are considering net neutrality legislation in the wake of last year’s Federal Communications Commission decision to begin dismantling net neutrality regulations passed during the Obama administration.
When UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee released records about sexual misconduct complaints to news organizations last month, they heavily redacted the documents and refused to identify numerous employees who were found to have committed wrongdoing.
Detroit took longer than expected to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests at the end of 2017, thanks to an ambiguity in Michigan’s government transparency laws.
Illinois’ treasurer is using college savings funds to leverage companies to change for social good. His office calls it common sense, but it’s being criticized as political activism.
If you read the digital headlines in the wake of Tuesday’s gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, you’d swear that you woke up three years into the future and forgot to vote in the 2020 presidential election.
If government starts down that road of censoring social media sites like Facebook, whose speech rights will it go after next?
“All governments, especially local governments, will succumb to public pressure.”
Stories about governments suing people who file Freedom of Information Act requests as a means of cloaking their activity sends shivers down columnist's spine.
When the press is used to spread propaganda and mistruths, it is a betrayal of their binding code as guardians of the truth. Journalists are not assassins, but conveyors of facts.
The White House press secretary is not reporters' enemy, even if the White House press corps treats him like one.
