Denise Civiletti

A ray of sunshine on an otherwise bleak day.🏳️‍🌈

Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, had asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion.

Newsday op-ed I wrote on behalf of the Press Club of Long Island.

Nassau County is wrong on its first responder protection act Requiring a 15-foot buffer around first responders could unlawfully restrict newsgathering, a fundamental right protected by the First Amendment.

Frustrated by efforts to access public records and "offline" government meetings — including school board "executive sessions" — and public matters being discussed via texts and emails decisions?

The Press Club of Long Island is hosting a panel discussion with Heather E. Murray, the managing attorney of the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic’s Local Journalism Project, and Michael Linhorst, the local journalism attorney for the clinic, who will explain New York's records access and open meetings laws and what we can do to make them work for us as citizens who have a Right to Know. Free event and you don't have to be a PCLI member to attend.

Join us on Zoom on Thursday, October 17, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Register here:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Freedom of Information and Open Meetings Law Primer with the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. New York State has both a Freedom of Information Law and an Open Meetings Law, but these laws are not always followed, and ensuring they are enforced can feel like an insurmountable task. Heather E. Murray, the managing attorney of the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic’s Local Journalism P...

Long Island journalist friends: If you're on the awards finalist list, time is running out to get your tickets to the PCLI Media Awards event June 13. Check the list then get your tix:

2024 PCLI Media Awards Finalists The PCLI Media Awards Banquet and 50th Anniversary Celebration will take place on Thursday, June 13, at Fox Hollow in Woodbury. Tickets, tables and journal ads are on sale now.

NY State is finally releasing data on COVID-19 hospital deaths — after a critical report by the NY AG and a court order in a FOIL lawsuit brought by a watchdog group. The state health department posted the data online this weekend (classic move). It's still incomplete. BUT it shows a 45% increase in nursing home resident deaths and 1,735 deaths among residents of adult care and assisted living facilities — 1,516 of which were not previously disclosed. The Cuomo administration's lack of transparency, while certainly nothing new, has never been more outrageous.

COVID-19 hospital deaths among NY's long-term care facility residents push death toll much higher than previously disclosed, new data show | RiverheadLOCAL The State Health Department has finally begun reporting COVID-19 fatality data for residents of nursing homes, adult care facilities and assisted living facilities who died after being transferred to hospitals.