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.@BrechnerCenter Director @FrankLoMonte on why universities have to stop blocking athletes from speaking to to the media. https://twitter.com/Poynter/status/1308869245216985104
For athletes at many of the nation’s top athletic programs, talking to the news media is regarded as a punishable offense. That needs to end.
https://www.poynter.org/educators-students/2020/universities-continue-to-block-athletes-from-talking-to-the-media-thats-got-to-stop/
When public universities gag athletes from speaking to journalists, they're worsening the coercive culture of silence that puts young people at risk of abuse and exploitation. From @FrankLoMonte for @Poynter:
Universities continue to block athletes from talking to the media. That's got to stop. - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen sk...
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My story on public universities and privatizing info by using separate foundations and other entities is highlighted in this podcast @whywedontknow1 and story here: https://bit.ly/3gWA2tH @USATODAY @amy_pyle @BrechnerCenter @OpenTheGov @NFOIC @sganim
Episode 7: Public, Not Public
Also Available On EPISODE 7 Public, Not Public By Sara Ganim It was the worst-case scenario for a university -- criminal cha...
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Here's a transparency problem you don't read about every day: Some Kentucky judges' handwriting is so bad, lawyers can't figure out who signed off on a search warrant.
Which Louisville Judge Let Police Search Your House? Most Signatures Are Unreadable
We reviewed more than 230 search warrants approved by Louisville judges. It's unclear who signed nearly three-fourths of them.
kycir.org
"It's, in some ways, the most successful case I've ever lost," says attorney Evan Johns, who fought George Mason University to find out what strings were attached to a big-money gift to the law school.
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Colorado's ballyhooed police transparency law has a loophole you can drive a cruiser through: You can't get copies of misconduct complaints unless you know everything about the case, including the officer's name.
Colorado law's 'loopholes' keep unknown number of police internal investigations secret
A 2019 bill made some police internal investigation reports public, but its language keeps an unknown number of IA reports hidden from public view.
www.coloradoan.com
Need to know if your kid's school has experienced a COVID outbreak? Good luck finding out. Many districts are refusing to disclose school-specific data.
Coronavirus is in Hampton Roads schools — but which ones? Districts won’t say.
A bill to require school-by-school disclosure has passed the state legislature unanimously. But until it becomes law, officials are citing medical pri...
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Had you daily dose of outrage? If not, give a listen to @sganim and this latest installment of @WhyDontWeKnow1, all about how public universities conceal their fundraising operations behind a veneer of privatization.
Episode 7: Public, Not Public
Also Available On EPISODE 7 Public, Not Public By Sara Ganim It was the worst-case scenario for a university -- criminal cha...
whydontweknow.com
"The media, lawmakers, taxpayers and families are left in the dark about how the BOP runs its 122 prison facilities." #datadeserts
Congress should support independent oversight of federal prisons
Nothing has highlighted the urgent need for oversight like the Bureau of Prisons' response to COVID-19 in federal lockups.
thehill.com