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    Digital Journalist's Legal Guide
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    Everything online journalists need to protect their legal rights. This free resource culls from all Reporters Committee resources and includes exclusive content on digital media law issues.

    Secret Courts

    This section covers access to courts. Courtrooms traditionally have been open to the public, but judges often close proceedings or seal documents when they feel secrecy is justified. This section also covers state and federal laws governing camera coverage of trials.

    Survey shows tendency to withhold dockets

    By Barbara Fought and Colleen Keltz, Tully Center        

     At one-third of the military installations surveyed by researchers for a comprehensive study on public access to military justice information, military base personnel just said “No.” Schedules of military courts-martial are not public.

    An interview with Daniel J. Klau

    An Interview with Daniel J. Klau

    Daniel J. Klau is a partner in the Hartford, Conn., office of Pepe & Hazard LLP. His practice focuses on appellate, media and privacy litigation. His media and privacy practice includes representing newspapers and other publishing entities in defamation and invasion of privacy cases and in matters involving media access to court files and judicial proceedings. Klau represents the Connecticut Law Tribune in the case regarding access to the Level 1 docket.