first amendment

Published
December 13, 2023

Maine courts shut off online records access over security concerns

The New England First Amendment Coalition says the Maine Judicial Branch should act quickly to resolve the security issue because the public has a right to access such information quickly and conveniently.
Published
November 10, 2023

Agency to fork up nearly $200,000 for shielding public records related to Kennebec County jail

The Maine County Commissioners Association Risk Pool is the first government entity in Maine to be penalized for wrongly withholding documents since the Freedom of Access Act became law in 1959.
Published
October 8, 2023

Free speech or uncivil discourse? Maine association advises tamping down on public comments at school board meetings

The Maine School Management Association has suggested schools adopt policies that prohibit offensive speech and complaints against specific staff or students at board meetings, but First Amendment advocates say it's a step too far.
Published
October 3, 2023

Augusta officials decline to regulate speech after murals, neo-Nazi demonstration prompt policy review

Existing city ordinances and state laws balance the need to protect the public and allow free speech, officials said.
Published
October 1, 2023

Susan Collins among backers of Senate measure that would restrict AI use in elections

“Deep fakes” that rely on computer-generated trickery may soon play such havoc with political campaigns that the prospect is raising serious concern among Maine’s senators and many of their colleagues.

Published
September 15, 2023

Commentary: Meta can’t dodge controversy on Threads forever

Restricting searches on terms like ‘COVID’ is a flawed response to the challenge social platforms face balancing public safety and free expression.
Published
August 31, 2023

Commentary: Kansas restaurant owner’s cockeyed complaint about paper doesn’t justify venom

Besides adding to the general toxicity and sense of aggrievement, it only makes the martyred recipient more convinced.
Published
August 30, 2023

Kansas reporter files federal lawsuit against police chief who raided her newspaper’s office

Marion County Record reporter, Deb Gruver said in a statement that by filing her lawsuit 'I’m standing up for journalists across the country.'
Published
August 21, 2023

The initial online search spurring a raid on a Kansas paper was legal, a state agency says

The raid on the Record put it and its hometown of about 1,900 residents at the center of a debate about press freedoms protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Kansas’ Bill of Rights.
Published
August 14, 2023

Kansas police, small newspaper at center of 1st Amendment fight after newsroom raid

While a restaurant owner accused the newspaper of unlawfully seeking information on the status of her driver's license, the newspaper countered that it received that information unsolicited, which it verified through public online records.

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