Confidential sources. (sociology student jailed for refusing to identify research interviewees) (Column)

From: The Progressive | Date: October 1, 1993| Author: Scarce, Rik | Copyright information

The author is being jailed by a federal grand jury, whose legal rights to do so threaten confidentiality of all social science research. His interviews with animal-rights activists are sought in investigation of a Washington State Univ laboratory vandalization incident costing $100,000.

In this time of eroding individual and communal rights, nowhere are the hallmarks of "free" society fading as fast as here in Spokane, Washington. This is not a new role for the city. It was here ...

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