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		<title>The NEFAC Report Blog has a new look</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>E-mails show Beverly, Mass. school official pushed to keep her husband employed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cate Lecuyer, reporter, The Salem News, Salem, Mass.  A string of emails obtained by The Salem News through the state public records law revealed the lengths taken by Beverly School Finance Director Joan Liporto to keep her husband employed as the school maintenance director.  The emails show Liporto tried to a block a move [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstamendmentblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702514&amp;post=871&amp;subd=firstamendmentblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public records are the public’s property</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By David Solomon, executive editor, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H.  New Hampshire has allowed public officials far too much discretion in the disposition of their documents and public papers upon leaving office.  As the state Senate debates a bill requiring governors and congressmen to turn over a selection of their papers to the state archives, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstamendmentblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702514&amp;post=867&amp;subd=firstamendmentblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Videographer takes on Conn. board over taping rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Board of Selectmen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Frank Loda, Seymour, Conn. In 2005, the Seymour, Conn., Board of Selectmen began forcing me as a videographer to &#8220;move (my) camera to the back of the room&#8221; and to &#8220;not video tape speakers&#8221; who asked to have the camera turned off when they were talking. The First Selectman also called the police to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstamendmentblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702514&amp;post=862&amp;subd=firstamendmentblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New law blocks Conn. inmates from accessing guard files</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James H. Smith, executive editor, The Bristol Press and New Britain Herald Both houses of the Connecticut General Assembly passed legislation by unanimous acclimation and Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed it into law last week preventing inmates from reading the personnel records of prison guards.  It is a wholly unnecessary law. The state Department [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstamendmentblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702514&amp;post=855&amp;subd=firstamendmentblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>License to report: Michigan state senator wants journalists to register</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University Michigan State Sen. Bruce Patterson’s ham-handed legislative proposal to have reporters registered by the state poses no serious threat to the First Amendment: The bill has not a single co-sponsor. Patterson says he doesn’t expect it to become law. It was filed, he insisted, merely to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstamendmentblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702514&amp;post=849&amp;subd=firstamendmentblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open government agency favors bulletin boards over the Internet for meeting notices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Karla J. de Steuben, attorney and creator of the Massachusetts Campaign for Open Government, a project of Common Cause Massachusetts One of the new changes to the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law, effective July 1, will require municipal clerks to make notices of meetings accessible to the public 24/7.  The Attorney General, through the newly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstamendmentblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702514&amp;post=844&amp;subd=firstamendmentblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minutes of closed-door meeting reveal maneuvering over Seekonk, Mass. fire chief contract</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Kirby, editor, The Sun Chronicle, Attleboro, Mass. The vote was shocking at first. The Seekonk Board of Selectmen abruptly voted to fire its fire chief, Alan Jack. But then, a matter of days later, the board pulled a 180, rescinding its earlier vote and awarding Jack a three-year contract. Why? There were no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstamendmentblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702514&amp;post=837&amp;subd=firstamendmentblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the shadows, Mass. quasi-public agencies and the need for budget transparency</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 01:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Deirdre Cummings, legislative director tax and budget policy, MASSPIRG, Boston, Mass.  Those who know Massachusetts government are accustomed to the fact that many of the Commonwealth’s public functions are performed by “quasi-public agencies” such as independent boards or commissions that are funded by their own fees, combined in some cases with general funds; and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstamendmentblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702514&amp;post=833&amp;subd=firstamendmentblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Censorship and the Phoebe Prince bullying case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 02:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Newman, director of ACLU’s western Massachusetts office, Northampton, Mass. The suicide of Phoebe Prince, the reports of bullying at the South Hadley High School, and the criminal indictments of six students. These emotionally charged issues, exponentially exacerbated by intense local and national media coverage, have roiled this western Massachusetts town. At the beginning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firstamendmentblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702514&amp;post=829&amp;subd=firstamendmentblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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