USA Today Network By Sheldon Gardner 9/27/2023 Lindsay Pate of Ormond Beach was fired up about the prospect of a huge fuel terminal being built just outside her city. She is opposed and she wanted the Volusia County Council to know about it. She singled out District 4 Councilman Troy Kent during a recent meeting. “Combative, aggressive, ready to […]
JOURNALISTS FIGHT BACK AGAINST ATTACKS ON OUR RIGHT TO KNOW
Popular Resistance By Margaret Flowers 9/25/2023 Information control in the United States is growing stronger as journalists face more restrictions on their ability to speak with people who work for the public good in agencies and institutions from the local to federal levels and are being targeted through illegal raids and confiscation of their equipment. […]
PAT ROBERTS, PRESIDENT OF THE FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS AND A FRIEND AND SUPPORTER OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT FOUNDATION, SHARES HIS MEMORIES OF LUCY MORGAN, WHO RECENTLY PASSED AWAY.
If you ask anybody in Tallahassee for their opinion about the most respected reporter in Florida over the last 40 years, there would be no debate: Lucy Morgan stood above all others. She was a force to be reckoned with, an honest, tireless, hardworking public watchdog – and my friend. Lucy passed away this month […]
Pulitzer winner & First Amendment Defender, Lucy Morgan dies at 82
Lucy Morgan was a longtime friend of the First Amendment Foundation. She was a fearless reporter and a firm advocate for the people’s right to know. She championed several First Amendment victories and was often hailed as a mentor for other women in the newsroom. Her exposure ofcorruption within the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office in […]
A Guide for Newsrooms Facing a Police Raid
As we’ve seen from recent law enforcement raids on the Marion County Record in Kansas and the home office of Timothy Burke in Tampa, local police and federal agents seem all too willing to brush aside the law when it comes to executing search warrants on journalists that lead to seizures of documents and equipment […]
First Amendment Foundation: Raids on journalists put free expression under siege | Opinion
Palm Beach Post By: Bobby Block, Executive Director of FAF Date: August 18, 2023 Free expression is under siege across the county, from state and federal legislators, law enforcement officials, politicians and activists of all political stripes. In Florida book bans are back, in the name of protecting students from words and ideas. Rules limit who can demonstrate at […]
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