Pima County's sheriff ran and won on a promise of transparency. Now, he won't honor requests for public records. And he won't explain why.
Pima County sheriff illegally withholding public records, experts say
Sheriff Chris Nanos is refusing to comment on experts' findings he repeatedly ignored Arizona law by refusing to r...
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Police bodycam programs were designed to promote transparency and build public trust. Yet footage often is costly, heavily edited and takes months to get. My story: @rcfp
Police bodycam footage often costly, heavily edited and hard to get
Created to build public trust, police programs a 'bait and switch', critics say
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If state universities get copies of athletes' NIL endorsement contracts, do those contracts become public records? Should they? @DanielLibit investigates:
‘Damn if I Know’: College Athlete Pay Rules Clouded by Disclosure Limits
Will the public soon be able to FOIA college athlete endorsement deals? That's just one of the many bedeviling q...
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Appeals court upholds NLRB decision that private employers can't gag workers from going to the news media with workplace complaints. Employers everywhere should be revising their (widely illegal) media policies. http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/20-1589P-01A.pdf
.@TheAtlantic picked up our @COVID19Tracking wrap-up, a summary of the systems that shaped the data. This post (and frankly the whole project) could not have been possible w/out the brilliance of @karaschechtman, my all-time favorite writing partner:
America’s Entire Understanding of the Pandemic Was Shaped by Messy Data
Our view of this crisis has been blurry from the beginning.
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.@BrechnerCenter Director @FrankLoMonte comments on #FirstAmendment implications of court decision. https://twitter.com/Law360/status/1394718308088389632
A pending U.S. Supreme Court case over whether schools may discipline students for social media posts under the First Amendment may give public universities the ability to further restrict college athletes' online speech. https://www.law360.com/articles/1384134
Colleges already aggressively silence athletes from speaking to the press or using social media. A case pending at the Supreme Court could legitimize, or even worsen, these anti-whistleblowing policies.
'Angry Cheerleader' Case Could Chill NCAA Athletes' Protests - Law360
A pending U.S. Supreme Court case over whether schools may discipline students for social media posts under the Fi...
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Tesla was recently told by NLRB to reform a gag rule forbidding employees from talking to the media. These policies are illegal, but they're pervasive across all industries. My article for the Seattle Journal of Social Justice explains: https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2059&context=sjsj