Sunday, August 01, 2010

Civic engagement for the week of Sat Jul 24- Fri Jul 30, 2010:

Government openness/ domestic surveillance:

Mike Gatto, California State Assemblyman, avoids cameras and answering question. But that’s putting it lightly. One man representing the assemblyman who can only kindly be described as “overly aggressive” in his tactics kicked a journalist out from a public meeting in a public library. Blog

“Most employees who reported disclosing wrongdoing or filing a grievance believe that they experienced negative repercussions for doing so,” according to a recent report to the President from the Merit Systems Protection Board. Blog

Conflict between law enforcement officials and camera-toting individuals frames the debate over security and freedom of the press in the incongruous terms of the Second Amendment. Blog