March 7, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

San Diego, California- On Monday, February 28th, 2011 at the State Capitol in Sacramento,  New Media Rights joined other public interest groups and individuals to support meaningful community group involvement will transparency by the California Broadband Council. Also present were Media Alliance, a San Francisco based media reform group, Access Humbolt, a community media center in Eureka CA, Viet Mai a San Diego based poet and Dr. Blanca Gordo, a Berkeley professor who writes on solving the Digital Divide.

This was the first meeting of the California Broadband Council was established from Senate Bill 1462 to coordinate federal funds and private broadband funding for statewide broadband deployment and adoption. $420 million in federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) broadband grants and the $57 million in California Advanced Services Fund grants has already been awarded in the state and allocated to different projects.