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Social Security Numbers Prompts Records Withdrawal

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January 5, 2005

By RCFP
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Mike Wallace subpoenaed in corporate fraud prosecution

January 4, 2005

By RCFP
Categorized in Protecting sources and materials
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Dispute within homeowners' association is public controversy

News Media Update WYOMING Libel

January 3, 2005

By RCFP
Categorized in Libel and privacy
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Federal voyeurism law aimed at peeping Toms, not journalists

News Media Update WASHINGTON, D.C.

January 3, 2005

By RCFP
Categorized in Libel and privacy
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Accident Records Being Kept from Public in North Carolina

· Story link North Carolina’s Division of Motor Vehicles is using new software, which permits police file direct e-reports on…

December 30, 2004

By RCFP
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Sen. Dodd Makes Case for Federal Reporter’s Shield Law

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December 28, 2004

By RCFP
Categorized in Policy
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A Brief History of Access to Information by the Congressional Research Service

There’s no provision for information sharing in the Constitution. And for many years, the executive branch used “artful interpretation” of…

December 28, 2004

By RCFP
Categorized in Freedom of information
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A Historical Look at the Withholding of Information

· Story link A Congressional commission took a long look at federal government secrecy in the mid-90s and concluded, 50…

December 28, 2004

By RCFP
Categorized in Freedom of information
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Minority Critique of the Last Four Years

· Story link In September, 2004, a minority report of the House Committee on Government Reform concluded that the past…

December 28, 2004

By RCFP
Categorized in Freedom of information
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FOIA Request Turns Up Interest Conflicts

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December 23, 2004

By RCFP
Categorized in Freedom of information
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