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VT Supreme Court Opens Police Porn Case to Public

By Brent Curtis Curtis RUTLAND, Vt. – The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the public’s right to access to the criminal and internal investigations of two Rutland police officers who viewed...

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The Diminishing Public View

By Rosanna Cavanagh Have you noticed lately that it seems we are taking a trip down the rabbit hole when it comes to citizen privacy versus the public’s right to  know? The new norm has become that we...

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Barge! What Barge!? Oh, That Barge!

By Jennifer McDermott NEW LONDON, CONN –  Before it was a “Google barge,” it was New London’s mystery barge.  Construction on the four-story structure began in the late spring at the Admiral Harold E....

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Maine Supreme Court Makes 911 Transcripts Public

By Cliff Schechtman PORTLAND, MAINE – The Portland Press Herald won a landmark freedom of information case last month that will now allow the public to better evaluate how well first responders do...

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Legislative Task Force Adopts Look, Listen but Do Not Copy (Without a Trip to...

By James H. Smith When Connecticut legislators met in secret last session, working with the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, they came out from behind closed doors...

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To watch in 2014: Ag-Gag Bills Pose Problems for the Public’s Right to Know

  By Rosanna Cavanagh  As we ring in the New Year without a new farm bill, we put off until next year the resolution of an important right-to-know issue of significant public concern.  If you eat, live...

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James Risen’s Litigation: A Turning Point for Press Freedoms

By Rosanna A. Cavanagh The subpoena of James Risen, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, to testify at the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former employee of the CIA, has been the subject of...

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Reflections on an FOI Odyssey

By Brent Curtis The legal odyssey that I and my newspaper engaged in for the last three years started not as a question about freedom of information, but as a question of whether or not a police...

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Exemption to APRA Blocks Access to Correspondence in Cranston Parking Ticket...

By Steven Brown On November 15, immediately after the Cranston City Council narrowly defeated a proposed police union contract, the wards of two Council members who voted against the contract were...

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Ag Gag Laws: A National Epidemic Threatening the First Amendment

By Bill Ketzer Introduced in January 2013, House Bill 110 in New Hampshire sought to impose mandatory reporting requirements on any person witnessing or recording an act of animal cruelty committed...

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