II. Authority for and source of the right

In 1992, the District of Columbia's City Council enacted (with Congress's approval) the Free Flow of Information Act, D.C. Code § 16-4701-4704. (Under the District's Home Rule Act the City Council may pass legislation for the District with certain exceptions; an act of the Council becomes effective if Congress does not pass a joint resolution disapproving of the act within a specified time period, generally 30 or 60 days. See D.C. Code §§ 1-204.04, 1-206.02 (2002).)