Cebu Citizens-Press Council

THE Cebu Media Legal Aid (Cemla) was registered last Sept. 20, 2011 in the Securities and Exchange Commission as Cebu Media Free Legal Aid Inc. The group subsequently held its first election of officers. [Read more →]

[This agreement was signed by seven top police officials in Central Visayas led by Police Regional Office 7 Director Chief Supt. Ager Ontog Jr.,  and news editors and news directors of 13 print and broadcast media outlets in Cebu. The signing was witnessed by Cebu Citizens-Press Council vice president Sabino Dapat and Cebu Federation of Beat Journalists president Elias Baquero.]

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING: PNP REGIONAL OFFICE 7 AND CEBU MEDIA MANAGERS [Read more →]

STATEMENT OF CEBU MEDIA LEGAL AID ON THE PROPOSAL BEFORE THE CEBU PROVINCIAL BOARD TO BAN TABLOIDS IN CEBU PROVINCE

We, members of Cebu Media Legal Aid (Cemla), which was organized under the auspices of Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC), view with alarm the proposed ordinance pending with the Cebu Provincial Board that would ban tabloids in the towns and cities of the Province. [Read more →]

Reject subpoena or summonses by local legislatures, media told
By Elias O. Baquero / Cherry Ann T. Lim
Sun.Star Cebu, July 1, 2011

THE Cebu City Council and the Cebu Provincial Board have no authority to summon members of media because that power is not granted to them by the Local Government Code. [Read more →]

Policy on summons from local legislatures

[This resolution was submitted by Cebu Media Legal Aid (Cemla), a loose group of lawyer volunteers, to the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC) at its quarterly en banc membership meeting at the MBF Cebu Press Center on June 30, 2011. The CCPC approved the policy.] [Read more →]