On Wednesday, March 27, people from across campus attended around 30 events part of the University of Montana’s first Democracy Summit, organized by UM’s Co-Lab for Civic Imagination.
On Friday, February 23, Mexico’s president defended his decision to disclose a reporter’s telephone number, saying a law that prohibits officials from releasing personal information doesn’t apply to him. Press freedom groups said the president’s decision to make public the phone number of a New York Times reporter Thursday was an attempt to punish critical reporting, and
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador defended Friday his decision to publicly disclose a New York Times reporter's phone number.López Obrador subsequently claimed "the political and moral authority of the president of Mexico is above" a law guaranteeing privacy, and that "no law can be above the sublime principle of liberty."López Obrador, a leftist firebrand,
Mexico’s president on Friday defended his decision to disclose a reporter’s telephone number, saying a law that prohibits officials from releasing personal information doesn’t apply to him. Press freedom groups said the president's decision to make public the phone number of a New York Times reporter Thursday was an attempt to punish critical reporting, and exposed the reporter to potential danger. Mexico's law on Protection of Personal Data states “the government will guarantee individuals' privacy” and sets out punishments for officials and others for “improperly using, taking, publishing, hiding, altering or destroying, fully or partially, personal data.”