[IP] Utah lawmakers close down all directory information in response to request for BlackBerry numbers

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Subject: fwd: [FOI-L] Utah lawmakers close down all directory
information in response to request for BlackBerry numbers
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:11:44 -0800
From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
References: <5684680329C04141B12AFE467EEC5E01040CB8F4@THORN.exch.ad.byu.edu>

At 8:00 AM -0700 02/09/2006, Joel Campbell <Joel_Campbell@BYU.EDU>
posted to the FOI-L list:
>We need help in Utah before this spreads. A bill was amended at the 
>last minute and then swept to the governor for signature.
>
>The goal was simply to keep the BlackBerry phone numbers of 
>legislators out of the hands of the media, lobbyists and the public 
>at large.
>     But the solution potentially clamped down on all of the ways 
>Utahns can contact their government.
>     The story of HB258 is an example of how Utah officials are 
>grappling with government openness in a digital age - and in this 
>case limiting access.
>     As Joel Campbell of the Utah Media Coalition puts it, HB258 "is 
>like killing a mosquito with an atomic bomb."
>Read the whole story at:
>
>http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3490185
>
>Joel  Campbell
>Assistant Professor
>Department of Communications
>360 BRMB
>Brigham Young University
>Provo, UT 84042
>801-422-2125
>joelcampbell@byu.edu

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