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U.S. Supreme Court will decide if states can close their borders to flow of information

Posted by  on 24 January 2013, 10:02 pm

By Steven Brown,  executive director of the ACLU’s Rhode Island affiliate PROVIDENCE, R.I. — By late June, we should know whether, in an age of the World Wide Web, states can constitutionally get away with closing their borders to the release of information. More than a dozen organizations promoting open government filed a brief this month [...]

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FOI advocate: “We can do much, much more.”

Posted by  on 26 May 2011, 1:31 pm

By Laura Crimaldi, director, New England First Amendment Coalition The founder of OMB Watch on Saturday said advocates must step up the political pressure to force the government to increase transparency and improve the quality of the information disseminated to the public. “We need to make the politicians do it,” said Gary D. Bass, who [...]

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