Yet the feds, invoking terror concerns, push to hide public records Nine states this year have placed new legal limits on police cellphone surveillance after revelations that law enforcement agencies across the country are gathering data of thousands of people at once, often without warrants or regard to whether the subjects are targets of criminal […]
VOTING-RIGHTS GROUPS MAKE FINAL PITCH IN REDISTRICTING CASE – The News Service of Florida
THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, June 12, 2014……….A Leon County judge should throw out the state’s current congressional districts as illegal because they were drawn as part of a secret process that favored Republicans, according to new filings from a coalition of voting-rights organizations opposed to the map. In a brief and a proposed ruling for Circuit […]
Shield laws – Tallahassee Democrat
A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court last week to blithely ignore the First Amendment rights of journalists and their essential need to protect confidential sources makes it more necessary than ever for Congress to enact a federal shield law. The action involves a confrontation between the media and the Obama administration in the case […]