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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