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HTML/19980909_eff_ab1629_letter.html

EFF letter to CA Gov. Pete Wilson asking him to veto the state anti-spam bill A.B. 1629 on several constitutionality grounds. (Sept. 9, 1998; HTML version.)

19980909_eff_ab1629.letter

EFF letter to CA Gov. Pete Wilson asking him to veto the state anti-spam bill A.B. 1629 on several constitutionality grounds. (Sept. 9, 1998; ASCII text version.)

HTML/ca_ab1629_1998_bill.html

CA anti-spam bill A.B. 1629 (passed by state legislature, Aug. 20, 1998). (HTML version.)

ca_ab1629_1998.bill

CA anti-spam bill A.B. 1629 (passed by state legislature, Aug. 20, 1998). (ASCII text version.)

ca_ab1577_95.analysis

Calif. state assembly bill 1577. The bill would provide for a certification procedure that would be used to verify the digital signature of anyone who has had their signature "certified." The bill would provide for a publicly-accessible database of certificates, which could be accessed by anyone wishing to verify a digital signature. While something like this would be useful for preventing online fraud & forgery, there is not reason whatsoever for the government to run it, and many reasons for them not to. This bill raises several very serious privacy concerns.

ca_assembly_bills.notice

March 1994 information about four bills which would open and assure electronic public access...AB 2547, AB 2524, AB 2525, and AB 2523

ca_legis_online.article

"DETAILS ON CALIFORNIA SENATE'S OUTSTANDING INTERNET-ACCESS SYSTEM" by Joel Snyder (from _GovAccess_)

ca_legis_online.faq

Jan 1994 information to assist the general public in obtaining legislative information for the State of California from the public access computer.

ca_privacy_act_1992.draft

Jan 1992 text of letter and draft legislation by Bill Lockyer "The Privacy Act of 1992." which addresses computer *crime* in a robust manner, but appears to be less concerned with many of the privacy issues

ca_sb1115_92_cec.amend

1992 amendment to the Calif. Education Code forbidding even private institutions from taking disciplinary measures against students' speech and expression. For once an *anti*-censorship regulation.

ca_sb295_95.analysis

rather dry analysis of a bill to allow the release of criminal-record related information on sex offenders to any inquiring person.

ca_sb295_95.bill

This bill would require any person or persons operating a community care facility that accepts as a client an individual who is required to be registered as a sex offender [under CA law, rapists and other sex offenders must submit to being added to, in effect, a permanent blacklist, available to the public] to disclose this fact, as well as the name of the individual, to any person who inquires whether any client of the facility is a registered sex offender. The bill was amended to impose certain prescribed criminal and civil penalties for persons who use the information disclosed pursuant to these provisions to commit a felony, misdemeanor, or for certain other unauthorized purposes. The bill would provide for the civil and criminal penalty money to be transferred to the Community Care Licensing Division of the department upon appropriation by the Legislature. (That's right - even if a person who's sex-offense records had been gravely misused sued, any money they win in settlement is automatically nabbed by the government! One needn't have any sympathy for sex criminals to see the idiocy of this.)

sf_info_access.article

Feb 1994 article from the bay gaurdian relating to sunshine laws and governmnet overcharging for information. A self-described "electronic activist", however, has forced Assessor Doris Ward to reduce the price of computer data tapes -- at least for the time being -- from $2,000 to $90.

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Directory of info on net censorship legislation in the California state legislature

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