What is the oldest federal court operating since 1789?
What is the Supreme Court?
100
For reporters, some sources won’t talk unless you promise them this.
What is a Promise of Confidentiality?
100
This Amendment prohibits excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th Amendment?
100
Nine Exemptions
What is the number of exemptions for the FOIA?
100
Barack Obama
Who is the first minority to be elected President of the United States?
200
When free speech and press rights conflict with other important rights, the courts must balance these freedoms and they are ruled on a case by case basis.
What is the Ad Hoc Balancing Theory?
200
Reporters must consider if these individuals will want to know the identity of the source before publishing or broadcasting the material.
Who are Police and Attorneys?
200
The 3rd Amendment
What Amendment limits the quartering (housing and feeding) of soldiers?
200
Paper Documents, E-Mail, Films and Computer-Generated Materials
What are examples of FOIA records?
200
Take a Gap Year
What will Malia Obama do before attending Harvard University?
300
On January 20, 2017, President-Elect Donald Trump will become the 45th President of the United States of America. By him being elected to this government position, what is he?
What is a Public Official?
300
A journalist who routinely promises confidentiality as a standard interview technique.
What is an unethical journalist?
300
4th Amendment
What Amendment protects people from unreasonable search and seizure (search warrants)?
300
Records under agency control at the time of the FOIA request.
What are agency records?
300
67%
What is the percentage of of whites who did not go to college and voted for Donald Trump?
400
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that students could not be suspended for wearing black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War and that students “do not shed their rights at the schoolhouse gate.”
What is Tinker vs. Des Moines?
400
If a reporter, reneges on a promise.
What is a risk for a lawsuit to be filed by the source?
400
Which Amendment requires the government to pay the owner if it takes private property for public use?
What is the 5th Amendment?
400
20 Business Days
What is the amount of time that government agencies have to answer requests for records and documents?
400
President-Elect
What is the official name of a newly elected President?
500
Places created by government for expressive activities.
What is a Designated Public Forum?
500
This landmark case set the tone for promises of confidentiality.
What is Cowen vs. Cowles Media?
500
The United States Constitution
What legal document can the Amendments be found?
500
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
What allows parents to review their children's educational records until the child is 18?
500
Security Clearances
Unconfirmed reports are stating that President-Elect Trump has requested this for his children?