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Dear friend,

Please take ONE moment to send TWO emails to support THREE important civil liberties issues in the Maine Legislature.

Tomorrow members of the Judiciary Committee are poised to vote on three important civil liberties bills. 

The first is LD 1881, An Act to Improve Transparency and Accountability in Government.  This bill says that government employees don't have the right to ask you why you are requesting public records and they don't have the right to treat different requests for information differently based on who is making the request.  The bill also requires that government employees comply with public records requests in a timely fashion.

The second is LD 1822, An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Right To Know Advisory Committee.  This bill implements the recommendations of the Right to Know Advisory Committee, of which MCLU Executive Director Shenna Bellows is a member.  Among those recommendations are establishing a Public Access Ombudsman in the Attorney General's office and requiring increased training for certain elected officials who handle public records requests.

The third is LD 1540, An Act to Guarantee Free Speech in Privately Owned Public Gathering Places.  This bill says that the owners of malls and shopping centers can't restrict your right to gather signatures to petition the government, wear certain clothes, buttons, or other forms of symbolic expression, post announcements on public bulletin boards based on the content of the message, or otherwise express yourself in a Constitutionally-protected manner.

Rachel L. Myers
Field Organizer
Maine Civil Liberties Union
www.mclu.org

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