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Senate Judiciary passes Shield Law bill

10. December 2009

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The shield law bill, S. 448, has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. It will now go to the full Senate.

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Suffolk Police F.O.I.L. forms go online

14. May 2009

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The Suffolk County Police Department announced that Freedom of Information Law (F.O.I.L.) requests for police and motor vehicle crash reports can now be made online through the police department’s Web site, www.suffolkpd.org.

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History of the PCLI Media Awards

13. January 2009

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The ceremony was at the Holiday Inn, Plainview, where we normally held our other PCLI meetings. There was no dinner. Just a bunch of seats in a small room with thin walls, where, as usual, we were being drowned out by the noise of a union meeting in an adjacent room.

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PCLI gets kudos from SPJ

10. October 2008

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From SPJ’s newsletter: ABSURDIA IN ISLANDIA   Journalists and the general public on Long Island are scratching their heads after one municipal body, the Islandia Village Board, briefly considered banning audio and video recording and transmission of public meetings. The Press Club of Long Island, the local chapter of SPJ, strongly opposed the proposal. In [...]

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Islandia tables open access bill

6. October 2008

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It has been reported that the village of Islandia has tabled its discussion of a proposed ordinance to ban audio and video recordings of public meetings and transmission of those recordings. A hearing on the motion had been scheduled for Oct. 7. The PCLI statement is nonetheless still being sent to the village to let them know [...]

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