December 3, 2019 Dear CalAware Today Subscriber, I’m counting on you to help realize our growth fund and its capacity building goals by reaching out to the next generation. Thanks to your initial show of support we’ve been to...
Read MoreAssembly Bill 1671, as amended May 18, could deter news organizations from publishing or broadcasting excerpts of surreptitious recordings made by others of conversations with medical professionals showing the latter to be...
Read MorePUBLIC INFORMATION Harmful, sometimes fatal hospital errors and infections in California now disclosed by NBC Bay Area investigative report online Real owners of California’s nursing homes and how the big chains perform revealed...
Read MoreOPEN MEETINGS UCLA student council will limit access to a meeting dealing with a divestment/boycott resolution against Israel—because it can PUBLIC INFORMATION Cal Poly SLO journalism prof sues his employer for access to records...
Read MoreThe Trans-Pacific Partnership is an international mega-trade agreement under development among the U.S. and a number of key nations of the Americas and Asia, negotiated entirely in secret and proposed to bypass close...
Read MoreTwo recent cases show how a law protecting the privacy of the mentally disabled leaves serious gaps in public accountability It’s an interesting common phenomenon that when the government takes over the lives and fortunes of its...
Read MoreWhen the majority of a local government body keeps dissident members from attending closed sessions, does that violate the representation rights of those who voted for the dissidents? That’s the issue being mooted in an...
Read MoreA Sacramento area hospital employee has just won a colossal damages award against her former employer for years of sexual harassment and humiliation—by doctors—but also for being fired when she blew the whistle to the human...
Read MoreRep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) energetically defends informational freedom on the Internet, so why does he want Americans to pay private publishers for medical research done at taxpayers’ expense? Rebecca J. Rosen asks the...
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