Below is a Sunshine Week op/ed written for Gatehouse Media by NEFAC Executive Director Justin Silverman. The column can also be read here. It’s Sunshine Week, an annual celebration of transparency in government. Freedom of information advocates throughout the country will spend the next several days reminding communities about their right to obtain public records and […]
The following blog post is one of six that the New England First Amendment Coalition will publish during Sunshine Week, highlighting the need for government transparency and addressing freedom of information concerns throughout the New England states. When posted, these articles can be read here. By Shawn Musgrave New England Center for Investigative Reporting In the past […]
The following blog post is one of six that the New England First Amendment Coalition will publish during Sunshine Week, highlighting the need for government transparency and addressing freedom of information concerns throughout the New England states. When posted, these articles can be read here. By Jim Condos Vermont Secretary of State Sunshine Week, which is now […]
The following blog post is one of six that the New England First Amendment Coalition will publish during Sunshine Week, highlighting the need for government transparency and addressing freedom of information concerns throughout the New England states. When posted, these articles can be read here. By Jim Campbell Maine Freedom of Information Coalition All over the United […]
The following blog post is one of six that the New England First Amendment Coalition will publish during Sunshine Week, highlighting the need for government transparency and addressing freedom of information concerns throughout the New England states. When posted, these articles can be read here. By Linda Lotridge Levin ACCESS/RI While we celebrate open government each Sunshine Week, […]
The following blog post is one of six that the New England First Amendment Coalition will publish during Sunshine Week, highlighting the need for government transparency and addressing freedom of information concerns throughout the New England states. When posted, these articles can be read here. By James H. Smith NEFAC, Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information The non-profit […]
By Amanda Palmeira Amy Gajda, author of the “The First Amendment Bubble: How Privacy and Paparazzi Threaten a Free Press,” was the keynote speaker at a symposium last month that centered on her book and how courts’ desire to protect privacy rights has affected First Amendment protections of media. The New England First Amendment Coalition sponsored […]
By Mollie Heintzelman The right to publish speculative opinions on sensitive matters — even if they portray an individual in a negative light — is now stronger in Massachusetts thanks to a recent ruling by the state’s high court. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court dismissed in November a lawsuit against the Boston Herald which could have changed the […]
By Jack Beaudoin In Maine, the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee reviews any proposed exemption to the state’s Freedom of Access Act. You’d like to think that after 459 exemptions in the law’s 40-year history, the committee would – at the very least – have the process down cold. Sadly, you’d be wrong. Our reporter, Dave Sherwood, […]
By James H. Smith The state Freedom of Information Commission will decide this month whether allegations of discrimination and racism among Norwalk school board members should be made public. Those who want to keep it all secret point to Norwalk Board of Education bylaw Section 9010: The board of education does not exist between meetings. Board members […]