. >> there was some articles and at freedom of information act -- freedom of information act requests regarding our code enforcement. i think it's time to see where we are at with the housing authority properties and our understanding of helping them achieve good code enforcement. >> we can certainly do that. >> great. maybe we can invite the director of housing authority. >> if you couldn't, during the course of how your discussions take place -- >> we should invite them. >> i would like to see it. >> me, too. >> item 7b -- the commission may take action to set the date of a special meeting and determine the items to be placed on the agenda for the next meeting and other future meetings of the building commission. >> we requested a joint commission with the planning commission. can we get that on the books? >> we have had and potentially have a couple of dates being considered. there are those where the rules of the engagement of topics of what is to be covered will be discuss prior to the consolidated meeting. >> maybe it would be good to get a date for the meeting. >> yes. if you c

the official freedom of information act response shows us a wide range of offenses. drug use, lying, falsification of records are among the more serious offenses and go all the way to improper paperwork, use cell phones but as lesli and i were discussing, some of these show some really interesting what the mayor and city council received and some very interesting detail you and i just found an officer who was disciplined, a detective involved in a brawl while at a bar off duty and intoxicated. conduct unbecoming to a crowd during a snowball fight. >> i'm getting the cue we need to move this along real quick. what kind of punishment are these folks facing? >> one day to firing then coming up tonight at 11 p.m. again what, has become the most controversial about all of this. who is getting punished and why. and tonight at 11 p.m. you will hear from the police chief lanier and chairman of the dc police union and again they have very different takes on this issue. >> we will be watching. thank you. >>> coming up next, the host city for the 2018 winter olympics have been

senator who represents san francisco and san mateo counties, and he is the recipient of spj's freedom of information award in 2010. that is our panel. back to you, rose. >> before we start, i want to get a sense of who we have in the audience. how many of you currently work in the media? lots. how many of you used to work in the media? how many of you want to work in the media? ok, good. that will give us a sense of who we are talking with. great. every friday, we have a media roundtable and invite international, alternative, and mainstream journalists to talk about coverage of the week's news. we believe it is important to highlight good journalism because so much of it gets passed over. we think it is also important to start off on a positive no. with that, i want to start off on a positive note tonight. i worked with very. we were on staff before the web was even a mainstream word. i just want to ask you, since you were there in the beginning, and you have rode the wave, what is really exciting new as we face all these challenges? >> the good news is we see an emerging business model for media, a

we did a freedom of information act request that went back to 2006. we reviewed hundreds of females that were going back and forth between the department of public health related to environmental review of the shipyard. i brought videotapes. hundreds of people were coming down here. we were door-knocking. people were getting rashes, nosebleeds. it was literally plumes of dust coming over the community. it has been documented that throughout that time, lenar was not monitoring the dust. they did not have data. they said they forgot to put batteries in air monitors that were supposed to record how much asbestos was being released into the community. we have heavy metals that caused serious issues for everyone who breeds that in, especially children. we said, we need something to be done. the department of public health at that time, david was saying in general, i see we are trying to put together an argument that exposure was low, right? we need to put together an argument that exposure was low. it seems to me that the available facts are on our side. we

. >> we filed a freedom of information act request from 2009 and didn't get a response until last weekll over 18 months later. after first offering interviews to just the three biggest networks, officials decided to expand access to include cnn and possibly other cable networks, but not fox. the director of broadcast media at the white house shown on the right wrote to a treasury press officer let me know which cables we add and we prefer if you skip fox, please. it's not clear who the "we" refers to, but that wish was initially honored. >> low and behold fox gets skipped and once it out there, you see the suggestion it's just a misunderstanding. >> the day after the controversy one media official writes to colleague, i am putting some dead fish in the fox cubby, just cause. >> white house spokesman jay carney tried to put it all in the past. >> that was then and we obviously deal with fox news regularly, i call on you regularly, we give interviews to fox news including to bill o'reilly. >> and fox news go get an interview with feinberg after all. and michael clemente, senior vice-pres

here's a sampling of the charges from 2007 to 2009 that the city paper uncovered after a freedom of information request. $143 at hooters. $278 at jimmy buffett's margaritaville in myrtle beach, nearly $600 at a hotel in little rock, arkansas, $150 at a steakhouse in the same city. the list goes on. these revelations follow the d.c. attorney general's civil lawsuit filed last month that alleged thomas used $300,000 in city money as a personal expense account. the attorney general listed 14 such examples in his complaint including money spent on an audi suv and golf outings to pebble beach and other courses. thomas has denied the accusations but has stepped down as the chairman of the economic development committee. he did not get back us to about this tonight. >>> another warning tonight about a potential terror attack on airplanes. it shows terror groups are going to even greater length in an effort to beat airport security. craig melvin is at dulles international now with the impact on all the flyers on all this. >> reporter: i talked to a federal security official tonight. he told me while th

ray machine as you can electronic privacy information center epic has released a slew of letters obtained through the freedom of information act request and shows a growing concern among t.s.a. employees about the risk of cancer from the michael chertoff x. ray scanners according to letters of pain but after some t.s.a. agents who. work with the radiation machines daily are falling ill with cancer clusters one such a letter written by the president of boston branch twenty six seventeen of the american federation of government employees in boston t.s.a. deputy director of federal federal security director read quite a few ts those consistently complained to me about their concern over the growing number of ts those working here who have been diagnosed as having cancer and if their concerns the t.s.a. is utilize technology may be to blame b.o.'s that's the symbol for boston still has an alarmingly high number of cancer affected afflicted t.s.o.'s still working here out while trying to address the illness in another letter a t.s.a. officer wrote to the federal security director of atlanta international airport

malicious group we were doing this for a reason we're doing the movement for a reason for the freedom of information and speech. and paul speaking of pay pal the hacktivists anon and those security are going old school with a new campaign against the site and rather than trying to get people to crash it with a d.d. o. s. style attack they're calling on others to boycott the online money service in a statement the hacktivist say the first step to being truly free is not putting one's trust into a company that freezes accounts when it feels like it or when it's pressured by the u.s. government now like topiary mentioned in our interview months ago pay pal has suspended funding for wiki leaks so the groups launched operation pay pal back then in response so has the boycott now worked well reporting that stock which owns paper of course went down a billion dollars in a matter of hours and if you look at the stock today compared to yesterday the price was down more than three percent at the close shot down a look at that so could boycotts become the new preferable ambo for anonymous and those that perhap

go ahead i did a freedom of information request the crown process prosecution service about that murder at the bus stop and asked why it wasn't treated as a racist attack as it was in the first place and the reason was because it wasn't right wing nationalist as you like to call them who perpetrated that murder it was a group of local youths had nothing to do with any right wing groups at all and the crown prosecution service actually obfuscated all the requests i made and in the end they said they were going to going to give me no information because it. was it was concerned with the case notes and they weren't of jack's people like people like the leader of the e.t.l. they admire i mean he wasn't a national television green with many of the messages out of the fifteen hundred words he only disagreed with one thing which was the terrorist act itself but he agreed with everything else the rhetoric was there and then before he finished he categorically issued a threat saying in five years' time this is going to happen unless you wake up and this you wake up it is it go this is not the th