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Burke, Edmund B. – Educom Review, 1994
Discusses three branches of privacy law, including intrusion, disclosure, and false light, as background for a coming article on the right to privacy in the information age. (KRN)
Descriptors: Disclosure, Electronic Mail, Laws, Privacy
Vail, Kathleen – American School Board Journal, 2002
Describes several legal issues involving school board member use of electronic mail, especially violation of state open-meeting laws. Offers several tips to avoid legal pitfalls. Briefly describes Freedom on Information Act issues related to electronic communication. Provides sample policies on e-mail use. (PKP)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Electronic Mail, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Problems

Goldman, Patti A. – Government Information Quarterly, 1990
Discussion of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) focuses on its applicability to computer records. Agency practices to ensure access to information are considered; requests, litigation, and administrative appeals that have helped clarify the FOIA are described; and computer software, electronic mail, computer programing, and requested formats…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Court Litigation, Databases

Shank, Russell; And Others – Library Trends, 1986
The first of two articles on privacy considers its development in U.S. tort law and its social and ethical aspects in the context of changing technology. The second, by Linowes and Bennett, examines the role of data-protection as a policy problem using the concepts and approaches of political science. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Disclosure, Electronic Mail, Federal Government, Laws
Uhler, Scott F.; Petsche, Janet N. – Illinois Libraries, 1997
In Illinois, local governments need to know how to comply with the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act when using teleconferencing, electronic record keeping, and e-mail. Examines the application of existing provisions in these acts and outlines questions regarding electronic records and e-mail that can not be answered under…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Data Processing, Electronic Mail, Freedom of Information
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1994
The Media and Law section of this collection of conference presentations contains the following 11 papers: "Independent State Constitutional Analysis of Public Concern and Opinion Issues in Defamation Litigation, 1977-1993" (James Parramore); "The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992: Will Sun…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Court Litigation, Electronic Mail, Feminism