In a hearing today in Federal Court, the Honorable White dissolved his prior Injunction. EFF has a complete breakdown of the case. You may remember our original post.
Feb
28
While perusing one of the numerous blogs I follow; beSpacific had a link to Scott A. Hodes’ article on llrx titled, “FOIA Facts: The Congressional Role in FOIA Operations.” It’s an interesting read.
You should bookmark these two sites to learn more about Public Records.
If for some reason you had your head in the sand or were serving some needy people in a third-world country and didn’t know that United States District Judge Jeffrey S. White eliminated the First Amendment with the stroke of a digital pen, you should be relieved to hear that WikiLeaks.org is getting some major support for their cause.
WikiLeaks.org was taken off line by the Order of Judge Jeffrey S. White. What I find most disturbing is the fact that Judge Jeffrey S. White didn’t even have to think about it. The Order came as the result of a signed Stipulation to the Temporary Restraining Order. I know what you’re thinking, but wait, the Stipulation wasn’t signed by WikiLeaks it was signed by their host and domain registrar Dynadot, LLC. The tactic used by plaintiffs in this matter was to go not after WikiLeaks, but rather hit the small hosting company and see if they will cave in. Well they did! I say, “Tsk, Tsk,” to Dynadot. Let’s make sure we DO NOT USE THEM for anything!!!
According to “Cave-in”dot’s website (I won’t link because I am DOFOLLOW) they claim to be a debt-free privately held company with no intention of going public or selling out to some “faceless” corporation. They’re right, they don’t sell-out because a “sell-out” infers a sale, and for a sale they would presumably get money. No, no, they wouldn’t do that…they just give up and salute the white flag.
Jane C. Horvath is Google’s Senior Privacy Counsel. In August 2007 Ms. Horvath joined Google and serves their interest full-time. Well, why did the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sue the U.S. Department of Justice for documents between the DOJ and Google?
According to EFF: “Jane C. Horvath was named the DOJ’s first Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer in February of 2006. At that time, Google was fighting a massive DOJ subpoena asking for the text of every query entered into the search engine over a one-week period. The DOJ request — part of a court battle over the constitutionality of a law regulating adult materials on the Internet — ignited a national debate about Internet privacy.”
As Tamara Thompson from PI Buzz reports:
“Alameda County, California has not been as advanced as other counties making public records available on the Internet. The Alameda County Sheriff joins other Sheriff departments which have created a database of current inmates. Lest public records become too easy to access, identification of inmates requires full first and last name, or PFN.”
Here is a link to the Alameda County Inmate Locator.
Here’s a clue: Convicted November 5, 2007 on 13 counts. Still guessing, I know it really isn’t fair since most of Mark Geragos’ clients all end up convicted, but I digress. Brent Roger Wilkes has received his new identification number since he was sentenced to 12 years in Federal Prison. According to the Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, Inmate 00858-298 is currently housed at The Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in San Diego. This is despite his attorney’s motion for Bail pending Appeal, coupled with the Department of Justice’s opposition to bail motion.
