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After a three-year battle in lower courts, a constitutional question stemming from a drunk driving citation will be heard by the Ohio Supreme Court.

A woman argues she was wrongfully stopped by an Ohio State Highway Patrol sergeant after someone shouted, "You need to stop that vehicle. That lady is drunk."

According to court documents, it turns out Sherry Tidwell was drunk as she was pulling out of a parking stop at a Symmes Township Speedway on Nov. 11, 2017.

However, she has successfully argued that the person whoshouted to the officer was an anonymous tipster. The law states police are requiredto furtherinvestigate anonymous complaints before they can stop and search someone, according to Northern Kentucky University constitutional law professor Jennifer Kinsley.

"He could have followed her. He could have radioed for backup and had someone else follow her," Kinsley said.

She said the protocols are in place so people don't use police reports as a spiteful way to get revenge on people.

In court, the sergeant said the man who shouted at him had been told to do so by the Speedway clerk who had sold Tidwell alcohol. The man who shouted has never been identified, according to court records.

Prosecutors say the tip came from an "informed citizen." Former Hamilton County prosecutor and judge Mike Allen explained informed citizens are presumed to be telling the truth because they could face charges if they make false allegations.

This is the issue the Ohio Supreme Court will focus on: who did this tip come from?

The Ohio Public Defender's Office and Attorney General's Office have weighed in on the debate filing opposing briefs in the case.

The public defender argues that allowing stops prompted by anonymous tips does not meet the threshold for probable cause.

"(It) not only eviscerates the protections provided by the Fourth Amendment, it defies reason," the public defender's office wrote.

Attorney General Dave Yost's office disagrees.

"Neither the federal Constitution nor the Ohio Constitution requires an officer credibly tipped off about a drunk driver to let that driver violate a lawpotentially killing someone in the process,"Yost's brief states.

From an outside perspective, it may seem Tidwell couldget off on a technicality, but both Allen and Kinsley said cases like these are important.

"There are a set of rules. Police officers have to follow those rules," Allen said."They can say it was a technicality, but when you're talking about search and seizure it's more than a technicality. It really goes to the person's fundamental rights."

The Ohio Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in this case on March 30.

"Courts have always said it's better to let a guilty person go free than to put an innocent person in person," Kinsley said."It's in cases like these that we get to play those values out."

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In 2015, United Farm Workers (UFW) came onto Cedar Point Nursery, a strawberry operation located on the California side of the California/Oregon border. Owner Mike Fahner filed a complaint with the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, saying that the union violated that states law for union access to farms by not sending written notice and disrupting work in progress. UFW countered that those present that day on the farm were Cedar Point employees, not outsiders. The Board dismissed the complaint.

Fahner decided to file a lawsuit against California, challenging its 1976 law allowing unions access to private farms for three hours a day for 120 days of the year. After defeats at the state and district level, Cedar Point lawyersargued the case in front of the Supreme Court earlier this week, on March 22.

You can listen to a recording of Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid at Oyez.org. Click on the speaker icon in the right column to both read the transcript to hear the audio.

As is the norm with any Supreme Court case, Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid is about a larger issue than what happened in 2015.

Joshua Thompson, an attorney with the nonprofit Pacific Legal Foundation who represented Cedar Point before the Supreme Court, is arguing that the law violates the U.S. Constitution. California lawmakers created the 1975 right to access rule to give unions a chance to ensure migrant workers had decent working conditions, were aware of their rights, and to recruit farm workers for the union.

Not surprisingly, many see overturning the law as a threat to union organizing on every kind of job site across the U.S. And others believe this court case can allow property owners to keep many more people off the property.

Im sure many restaurants would say the same thing about food inspectors and say, you know, we want to allow customers on our property, we just dont want to allow food inspectors to check to see if there are rats running around the kitchen, Nikolas Bowie, a Harvard Law School professor and expert in labor law, told ABC News. That ultimately is whats at stake here.

The actual arguments before the Court centered around legal terms and how previous Court rulings shed light on the case. For example, the Justices examined how forcing property owners to accept outsiders is legally similar to the government taking easements from landowners without compensation.

Hidden in that seemingly minor discussion, however, is a framework that will allow this single case to determine when landowners must give outsiders access to their property.

When Thompson faced the Court, the Justices grilled him on why his argument to declare the California law in violation of the Fifth Amendment wouldnt also bar inspectors.

He argued that the government was granted this type a right written into the Constitution, saying it was part of the common law that our legal system is built on. The California law, he says, forces property owners to allow access to third parties with outside of that Constitutional framework.

With respect to the governments authority to search, that was certainly present at common law. And the Fourth Amendment put limits on the governments power to search, but it certainly recognizes that this a power that the government possessed at all times and certainly at the time of the California finding, Thompson said in response to a challenge from Justice Neil Gorsuch.

When Michael Mongan, the lawyer arguing on behalf of California, took his turn before the Supreme Court, he argued that the law carries out the purpose of the Fifth Amendment. He says the limited times the law grants unions provides the needed balance to property owners rights.

We will not hear the Supreme Courts ruling on Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid until early June, ABC News reports. But several news outlets who regularly report on the Supreme Court predict it will rule in favor of Cedar Point.

Most of the justices conservative and liberal agreed the right to access rule, adopted in 1975, appears to violate the property rights protected by the Constitution, the LA Times reports.

Reporters made their predictions based on what the Justices said to the California lawyers defending the law.

It seems to me that letting the government come and use your land for non-business purposes seems to be exactly what the takings clause was intended to avoid, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said. The takings clause is part of the Fifth Amendment.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed out that previous Supreme Court rulings seem to favor Cedar Point Nurserys stance.

Carol Miller is the editor of American Vegetable Grower, a Meister Media Worldwide publication. See all author stories here.

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The female narrative isnt always taken into account. Sometimes, there is no narrative at all. To change this and bring about a bit of difference in their own way, the University Art Museum along with the Literacy Department of the University Libraries are hosting an Edit-a-thon on Monday, 29 March.

The Edit-a-thon is aimed at editing Wikipedia articles on women artists, particularly those related to the University at Albany Fine Art Collections and the University Art Museums current and past exhibitions. However, the Edit-a-thon is not restricted to these artists alone. Its open to the narratives of all women artists, even if some dont have pages yet.

Information on Wikipedia is skewed, said Christine Snyder, office and operations manager at the University Art Museum. There's a lack of female editors and a lack of articles about women. So, it's a way that we can come together and try to work on that. The community can get involved and work on editing, learn how to edit and update articles on Wikipedia if they don't already know how,

The event will be virtual and the organizers will provide links to tutorials for the beginners as well as references for information. Information about women artists connected with the University Art Museum will also be available.

Participants can register for the event and will be sent a Zoom link. Individuals and small groups of people will also be able to get personal assistance between 2:30-4:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time within the Zoom session. Those interested are also asked to register as Wikipedia editors before the event. For more information, to find a link to create a Wikipedia account, and to preview the topic suggestions, the University Libraries have offered a LibGuide.

To register for the virtual event and receive a Zoom link: https://albany.libcal.com/calendar/events/wikipedia

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Wikipedia is used as a resource by millions, but compared to the total amount of its users the site has a small number of mostly male contributors. A 2010 study by the Wikipedia Foundation found that at the time only 13% of its contributors were women. RIT Libraries Women on Wikipedia-edit-a-thon events are geared to change that imbalance.

RIT libraries has hosted the annual event for 5 years, offering its space and resources for people to contribute and create new pages of women on the popular website.

RIT Librarian Rebekah Walker says that before the pandemic the event was held on RITs campus and was open to the public.

People could show up with devices and we could find them devices in the library to use to edit said Walker. And then we have very similar resources like books for people to browse through.

Over the past 20 years, Wikipedia has become an essential resource for quick web references and preliminary research. However, males have dominated the site's contributor ratio. It's estimated that about 20% of all Wikipedia biography pages are about women. Some people attributed the lack of diversity in content as correlating to the high representation of its male editors.

Since 2011, there has been an initiative by the Wikipedia Foundation to invite more women to be represented as both contributors and in biographical content.

Walker said there is a distinction between the way women and men are written about on the website. She said many women's stories are often told through their relationships to men.

Women articles more often describe their familial relationship, their marriages, said Walker. People refer to them by their first name or by Mrs. so-and-so. Foregrounding their relationships other than their accomplishments.

Previous Women on Wikipedia-edit-a-thon events have resulted in 10 new pages and edits to 260 existing pages.

Walker said there is a current list of women that includes the first deaf NASA engineer, and lesser known actresses and artists that they hope to create new pages for during this years event.

Women on Wikipedia-edit-a-thon will be held virtually this year on Friday March 26. To register visit library.rit.edu

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A 26-year old who goes by the pseudonym Nohirara, which means falling in love in Central Sulawesis local language, remembers clearly how he was introduced to Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia. Choosing only to use his Wikipedia username and not his given name, Nohirara, who works for a digital comic publisher, takes The Jakarta Post back to his high school days, six years ago. His history teacher had asked the class to write a paper about Indonesias rule under the Dutch East India Company (VOC) during the colonial era. He knew that there were books in the school library that would help his research, but limited in quantity, all those books had been rented out. Seeing Nohirara uneasy about the situation, a friend told him about this site containing nearly everything called Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia, the Indonesian version of Wikipedia.

I copy-pasted the whole page and submitted it. My teacher didnt know [I was cheating], so I got a good grade, he laughed.

The next day, driven by curiosity, he returned to Wikipedia and found that anyone could edit the pages. From that day on, Nohirara spent his recess on the librarys computer, editing Wikipedia pages. Today, he is one of the websites administrators and manages Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesias Twitter account. An administrator can delete or protect (ensuring no malicious edits are made) articles and ban problematic accounts.

One of the most popular websites in existence (it was ranked the fifth-most visited website globally as of January 2021 with 6.1 billion monthly visitors), Wikipedia is powered by a community that shares a passion for information; it has served as a lot of people as the first stop for general information since its launch in 2001. Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia launched in 2003.

Benny Lin (also using his Wikipedia username), a then-17-year-old Indonesian living in the United States (he is now 36), was one of the first Wikipediawan a term Indonesians use for local Wikipedia editors. He remains an active editor.

Wikipedia [Bahasa Indonesia] challenged me to be able to write and edit in formal Indonesian. As an Indonesian living abroad, it made me realize I was not that good at writing in my mother tongue, said Benny. In his early contributions, Benny wrote about musical instruments, history and anything he could translate often until ten at night using the computer at the universitys library.

Majoring in Computer Science, Benny helped develop the early stages of Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesias user interface, such as the categorizations feature or the formatting template. Thanks to his work, a then-third grader, Ramzy from Pekanbaru, was able to navigate his way on the website quickly, sometime in 2007.

It was all about soccer articles in the beginning. Slowly but surely, I (worked on) history, politics, law, film and pop culture, said Ramzy Muliawan, now a 22-year-old law student at Andalas University in West Sumatra. In 2013, he was nominated as an administrator.

#BoikotWikipedia campaign

In 2020, a viral #BoikotWikipedia (boycott Wikipedia) hashtag made the editors fear for their safety.

In June 2020, a group of unidentified people on the internet began the campaign, utilizing threatening language, because they were not happy with the way Wikipedia wrote about the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the massacre of 1965. They think we were presenting inaccurate information, because it did not match the official history narrative of the government, said Ramzy. The weird thing is, it was only Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia they were campaigning to boycott, not Wikipedia English, where they could clearly see that the story [there] is more antigovernment than ours.

Rian hopes more experts will write and edit for Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia to improve the quality of its articles. (JP/Courtesy of Hari Suharto)

The impact was huge for the local Wikipedia community. Many of my friends werepersecuted online, said Nohirara. Those people even tried to find personal information about the contributors involved in the article and sent threats.

Thank God, there was no real violence. After that, we learned to separate our online presence from our real identity, said Benny. Ramzy even changed his username.

Despite the turmoil, Hari Rian Suharto still uses his real name on the site. As a veterinarian working at the Ministry of Agriculture in South Sulawesi, the 32-year-old has a mission in mind. One problem I want to solve regarding Wikipedia (Bahasa Indonesia) is its lack of expert contributors. I use my real name and write about something Ive deeply learned about to inspire other experts to do the same.

Rian, who just got promoted as an administrator a month ago, was the first to create the Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia page about COVID-19 last year.

Wikipedia and women

Rahmi has been working at Wikimedia Indonesia since 2018, a host institution that is officially part of Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia. The 25-years-old woman works day-to-day as an educational program coordinator.

Wikimedia often holds writing and editing training courses, we need more people, because contributors are the backbone of Wikipedia, said Rahmi. It is a challenge, because contributors, both administrators and supervisors, are nonpaid positions.

Another big challenge for Rahmi, Benny and everyone in the Wikipedia community is how to get more women involved.

Ramzy presents at the WikiPelatih (WikiTrainer) workshop in Jakarta in 2009. (JP/Courtesy of Ramzy Muliawan)

A woman finally joined us [as an administrator] last year, Benny said, after nearly 16 years of all-male administrators. Benny shares part of the blame on history.

At Encyclopedia Britannica, the editors are hundred percent men. (History tells) us that writing and editing is a men-only type of job, but now we are trying our best to [close] the gap. The problem also occurs globally. According to a 2018 survey by Wikimedia, only 8 percent of global Wikipedia contributors are women.

One of their efforts is the Wikigap program, which trains women to write about women-related articles. Wikigap has been held four times: in Yogyakarta (2018), Padang (2018), Bandung (2019) and as a webinar format (2021), with 30 to 40 participants in each session.

Wikimedia also has an Indonesia-exclusive monitoring program called Wikisedaya to supervise the women theyve trained.

Benny tries to do his part by sharing Wikipedia articles that anyone can relate to. I try to attract more women readers in the hope that it will encourage them to edit on the site, Benny said.

As of March 18th, 2021, Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia has 1.2 million users, 2,093 active users, 38 administrators and 564.044 articles.

Not surprisingly, Many people write about themselves in Wikipedia, even though most of them are not qualified for an article; bureaucrats and businesspeople even often order articles about themselves, said Ramzy, when asked about some memorable moments taking care of the site. He mentioned that you have to be in three credible sources book, journal, media to have your own Wikipedia page.

He laughs, recalling one particularly heated exchange among editors. We had a good debate in 2014 to decide whether or not we should make an article for each member of girl band JKT48.

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