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		<title>Previously censored article printed after high school paper, administration reach compromise</title>
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After a ten-month censorship battle with the Glendale Union High School District, Thunderbird High School&#8217;s student newspaper, The Challenge, published and distributed a previously censored article.

The article about the district&#8217;s teacher assessment testing was set to publish on May 8, 2009, and is now in the Feb. 12 of The Challenge, along with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonafoi.com/2010/02/previously-censored-article-printed-after-high-school-paper-administration-reach-compromise/</link>
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		<title>Nationwide study shows subpoenas increasing, impacting newsgathering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A large-scale empirical study of media subpoenas, to be published this year in Washington Law Review, suggests that the problem of media subpoenas is on the increase and that the receipt of a subpoena can seriously impact the newsgathering process. It also suggests that journalists are poorly informed of their own legal protection.
Read more at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonafoi.com/2009/08/nationwide-study-shows-subpoenas-increasing-impacting-newsgathering/</link>
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		<title>Amicus Brief in metadata case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read the amicus brief that was filed in the Arizona Supreme Court on behalf of the First Amendment Coalition of Arizona, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Arizona Newspapers Association in Lake v. City of Phoenix. I think the brief turned out well and many thanks to Professor Steve Doig at ASU’s Cronkite School [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonafoi.com/2009/07/amicus-brief-in-metadata-case/</link>
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		<title>Great quote</title>
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If people don’t enforce their rights, they lose them.
— Dan Barr



Related posts:Great quote
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		<link>http://arizonafoi.com/2009/07/great-quote/</link>
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		<title>Sedona reporter tests Rule 122</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tommy Acosta, editor of the Sedona Times and a freelance writer for Sedona.biz, has been ordered by the Sedona Magistrate Court to show cause why he should not be found in “indirect civil contempt” for allegedly videotaping a court proceeding.
Jennifer S. Paetkau, an assistant city attorney for the City of Sedona, alleges that Mr. Acosta, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonafoi.com/2009/07/sedona-reporter-tests-rule-122/</link>
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		<title>Ariz. appeals court rules metadata aren’t public records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A divided Arizona appellate court has ruled that hidden electronic data that indicate how and when documents are produced with word-processing computer programs aren’t themselves public records. Read more: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/press/information/news.aspx?id=21130
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		<link>http://arizonafoi.com/2009/01/ariz-appeals-court-rules-metadata-aren%e2%80%99t-public-records/</link>
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		<title>Final Report on Rule 123</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rule 123, Rules of the Supreme Court of Arizona, governs public access to records maintained by the judiciary. The foundation of the Rule is that court records should be open to everyone. But exactly what information should be available to the public online for individual cases? Should certain users be authorized to directly access case [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonafoi.com/2008/12/final-report-on-rule-123/</link>
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		<title>Great quote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If it&#8217;s government business, it&#8217;s public business.
—Dave Cuillier
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		<link>http://arizonafoi.com/2008/04/great-quote-3/</link>
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		<title>Great quote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Public records aren&#8217;t just about the media &#8212; it&#8217;s about the public.
— Laurie Roberts
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		<link>http://arizonafoi.com/2008/04/great-quote-2/</link>
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