Caitlyn Crites
The day after the 2021 inauguration, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to Twitter to declare: âBiden is making transparency cool again.âÂ
This was a head-scratcher for many journalists and transparency advocates. Freedom of Information â the concept that government documents belong to and must be accessible to the people â has never not been cool. Using federal and local public records laws, a single individual can uncover everything from war crimes to health code violations at the local taqueria. How awesome is that? If you need more proof: There was an Australian comic book series called
Southern Squadron: Freedom of Information Act; the classic anime
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LAWRENCE Jared Nally’s post-high school experience was a meandering, years-long journey through various colleges as he tried to nail down what he wanted to do with his life.
So when he arrived at Haskell Indian Nations University in fall 2019, he was excited to have not only found a place to get deeply involved in campus activities but a student newspaper that would pay him to do it.
He never thought he would have to sue the university to protect that right.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court of Kansas in Leavenworth against the university and its president, Ronald Graham, and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education and its director, Tony Dearman, Nally and the newspaper’s publishing company, Indian Leader Association, allege that the university violated Nally’s and the paper’s First Amendment rights.
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