Giant Private Prison Company Goes To Court To Try To Get Lawyer To Stop...
CoreCivic is one of the nation’s largest private prison companies. And while it should already be concerning that we even have private prison companies, CoreCivic appears to be particularly awful. Just...
View ArticleFlorida Judge Dissolves Injunction Blocking Paper From Publishing Names Of...
About a week ago, a Florida judge decided a local law superseded the First Amendment. The judge granted an injunction to law enforcement officers, barring a Florida newspaper from publishing their...
View ArticleJudge Fines Trump Muppet Josh Hawley For Violating Public Records Laws To...
Let’s get this out of the way right up front: Senator Josh Hawley is not a Good Person. The former attorney general had the chance to be a good person, but instead became the poster boy for...
View ArticleLos Angeles Does Police Union’s Dirty Work For It, Sues Person Over Public...
For years, California residents were allowed to know almost nothing about some of their public servants. While most of the government was a (relative) open book, law enforcement officers and their...
View ArticleMassachusetts State Police Fail (Twice) To Redact Troopers’ Birthdates In...
To err is human. To forgive is beyond me. Sorry. That’s just the way it is. If we’re paying outsized portions of local budgets to law enforcement agencies more interested in selective enforcement,...
View ArticleSection 230 Protects Public Records Portal, Says Judge While Tossing Bogus ID...
Section 230: not just for those irascible tech giants politicians keep grandstanding about. We all may have a love/hate/really hate relationship with various social media services, but Section 230 also...
View ArticleCalifornia Governor: Hey, Let’s Try To Save A Few Bucks By Making Cops Less...
We, as a nation, spend hundreds of billions every year to ensure law enforcement agencies are staffed well enough to provide, at best, semi-competent service. We spend billions every year on lawsuit...
View ArticleSenator Josh Hawley’s Public Records Law Violations Just Cost His...
Late last year, Senator Josh Hawley — the fist-pumping supporter of Trump-approved insurrection — generated the last bit of his Missouri state government legacy. Having been successfully sued for...
View ArticleCalifornia Appeals Court Says Police Drone Footage Not Automatically Exempt...
Public records requesters in California recently scored a small victory in one of the state’s appeals courts. The EFF, which filed an amicus brief in this case, summarizes the decision at its website....
View ArticleColorado Journalist Says Fuck Prior Restraint, Dares Court To Keep Violating...
Most courts recognize prior restraint as a First Amendment violation. Most courts. Not all. And the lower you go on the judicial organization chart, the more likely you are to run into a judge who...
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