By Richard Knee A group of open-government activists is working to get a CalAware-endorsed measure strengthening San Francisco’s Sunshine Ordinance onto a future citywide ballot. CalAware’s general counsel, Terry Francke,...
Read MoreGuest Report and Comment by Richard Knee San Francisco’s open-government laws are regarded by some as among the nation’s strongest. But some people in City Hall are doing their best to keep the city’s Sunshine Ordinance and the...
Read MoreOpenness and Civil Liberties: The Unsexy Topics President Obama’s recent directive to what many oddly call the national security “community” (a hamlet with hundreds of smoking stovepipes?) to work on...
Read More(Specious “Privacy” to Evade Attention and Reform) Most of us are by now aware that the acronym SLAPP refers to “Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation”—in its purest form, a lawsuit filed to silence speech about...
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