Defense Department makes it easier to obtain court filings in Guantanamo trials

As trials of accused terrorists begin at Guantanamo Bay, the Defense Department released new regulations designed to create better access to court filings. Journalists have objected to the long review processes for obtaining court filings without which they were lost when covering the trials. -db From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, November [...]

A&A: The DA gives information to other media, but refuses to make it available to our newspaper

Q: I uncovered an election-time irregularity in the office of the District Attorney. This news led to his assistant’s departure. Now, the DA refuses to provide public information on court cases that we can only get (and have gotten for 35 years) over the phone. I believe there is a statute somewhere that requires government [...]

Media claims BP blocking access to gulf oil slick

News photographers are saying that government officials working with British Petroleum are denying them access to both the oil disaster area and the beaches and marches affected by the spreading oil. -db PR Watch.org May 27, 2010 News photographers are saying that their efforts to document the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico [...]

A&A: Journalist Access to Tenants, Private Communities

Q: The manager of an apartment complex where a murder has occurred wants to deny our reporters access to tenants. We want to knock on doors and ask renters if they will be interviewed. Can he prevent us from doing this? Is there a citation? A: It has long been the law in California that [...]