Posts from — October 2009

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press // Arizona Supreme Court rules electronic data is public

• “The Arizona Supreme Court today ruled that metadata – information about the history, tracking and management of an electronic document – is subject to the state’s public records law.”

Knoxville News Sentinel // FBI widens death-threats probe, subpoenas KNS online records

• “The News Sentinel was served Monday with a federal grand jury subpoena for information related to a comment posted in September on its Web site, knoxnews.com. On the advice of corporate counsel, the newspaper turned over the information late Monday to FBI Special Agent Gregg Harmon.”