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The Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida has launched a new research journal, The Journal of Civic Information, and UMass Law鈥檚 Professor Rick Peltz-Steele is serving on the inaugural editorial board.

The Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida has launched a new research journal, , and UMass Law鈥檚 Professor Rick Peltz-Steele is serving on the inaugural editorial board.

Including legal analysis and social science, the peer-reviewed quarterly is inviting scholarship in the field of access to public information, especially works that 鈥減rovide insights of practical value for those who work day-to-day in access to government information.鈥� Launched this month, includes articles on the privatization of public records and access to government officials through social media.

Professor Peltz-Steele joins an comprising access-to-information scholars from across the United States, from Georgetown to Reno. Peltz-Steele has been a researcher and writer in freedom of information law for more than a decade, having published a in 2012. Freedom of information was something an impetus for Peltz-Steele鈥檚 application to law school in the 1990鈥檚, he said, after, as a student journalist, he butted heads with police over access to public records. Peltz-Steele鈥檚 in freedom of information, called 鈥渁ccess to information鈥� elsewhere in the world, has been comparative, examining emerging doctrines in Africa relative to access law and .

Publisher of the new journal, the at the University of Florida is an incubator for initiatives that give the public timely and affordable access to the information necessary for informed, participatory citizenship. The Center is a source of research, expertise and advocacy about the law of gathering and disseminating news across all platforms and technologies.