Marjorie Cohn, a professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, said that a Web site that publishes photos of convicted prostitutes violates the women’s right to privacy.
“It’s an incredible invasion of the privacy of the women, with no real benefit to law enforcement,” Cohn said.
Other than reducing the number of […]

Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized.
After all what could be more upsetting than reading a report on safety problems? How upsetting is actually dying […]

Bridge inspection reports can legally remain secret, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office has decided.
Bridge maintenance is a life and death matter as so clearly proven by the recent I35 Minneapolis bridge collapse. In 1990, the Minneapolis bridge was inspected by the US Department of Transportation and found to be “structurally deficient.” In […]

In this recent story writer Frank Miele attacks the New York Times’ decision to publish classified military secrets. His argument is that publication endangered Americans and essentially amounted to treason.
The Open Records Project would agree with part of Miele’s argument but offer a caveat and some perspective.
Yes, it would seem that the […]

Presidents don’t have indefinite veto power over which records are made public after they’ve left office, a federal judge has ruled.
Some presidents might be embarrassed by their records in office. Public disclosure could tarnish their finely tuned “legacy.”
Following U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling, the presidential legacy belongs to the people who elected the […]