Changed home page title so as to not confuse people that this is the national AU home page (in search engines which only display the first snippet of the title, this appears to be the case).
Updated AU national membership numbers to reflect our membership stands at over 70,000 members!
September 07, 2003
Announced the next meeting date (Monday, September 8).
Posted link to SacBee Letters to the Editor (containing AU Sacramento statement).
Posted link to SacBee article by Charles Haynes of the First Amendment Center.
Announced new Legislative Training Workshop to be held Monday, January 21, 2002!
Multiple new articles regarding the Law Enforcement Chaplaincy Sacramento (LECS):
AU Sacramento Statement to the Sacramento City Council regarding LECS;
Sacramento Bee Opinion piece entitled, "Other Views: Chaplaincy will take a second look at itself";
Letters to the Editor entitled, "The job of chaplains";
Sacramento Bee Article entitled, "Chaplaincy, city mend relationship";
Sacramento Bee Article entitled, "Group to drop funding by city";
Letters to the Editor entitled, "Requirements of chaplains";
Sacramento Bee Article entitled, "Wary praise for chaplaincy."
New article on Sacramento Police Chaplaincy:
"Forum: Blowing whistle on Sacramento chaplaincy"
December 10, 2001
Updated information on Supreme Court Case regarding vouchers:
"Group asks Supreme Court to rule against school vouchers"
December 7, 2001
Updated information on Sacramento Police Chaplaincy issue:
"Group may cut chaplaincy ties"
December 6, 2001
Updated information on Sacramento Police Chaplaincy issue:
"Police-sheriff chaplains opened to all faiths"
"Chaplain group to accept all faiths"
"News in brief from Northern California"
"Letters to the Editor"
December 3, 2001
Link posted to Sacramento Bee Editorial entitled, "Freedom of religion: Publicly funded chaplaincy must be open."
Posted link to Sacramento Bee Letters to the Editor regarding Sacramento Police Department partnership with the Law Enforcement Chaplaincy Sacramento.
Added hundreds of new links to government, media, and internet.
November 23, 2001
Posted link to Local HUD office, Sacramento, for info on the current "Genesis Project" -- partnerships between government and local faith groups
November 22, 2001
Posted links to Sacramento Bee articles: "Chaplaincy faces probe by county," "Privacy dispute rises in sign flap," "House votes to support Rocklin schools 'God' sign," "Board urges Rocklin schools to post patriotic signs," "What's the big deal? -- ACLU is wrong in Rocklin school flap," "Letters to the Editor"
November 20, 2001
Posted link to Sacramento Bee article "Chaplaincy urged to halt Christians-only hiring policy"
November 17, 2001
Posted link to Sacramento Bee article "Chaplains' creed raises legal alarms."
Section titles added to Issues web page for easier content browsing.
Announced Carol Velarde's talk at the local AOF chapter. Showcased AU Sacramento members in the news.
Updated information on the Breen Elementary School's posting of "God Bless America."
October 2, 2001
Links and Local Issues sections now have links to Mike Newdow's web site.
Reserved space for future letter-writers section.
Home page graphics now have text descriptions.
Web ring description now easier to read.
September 16, 2001
Announced the next meeting date.
Updated colophon to credit individuals/organizations who have contributed images. Voices For Separation resource now available.
Site now member of "Church-State Web Ring" (external link).
Posted text of Susan's speech to the Auburn Unitarian Church, August 12, 2001.
August 18, 2001
Moved Susan's speaking engagement announcement to the Announcement Archives.
July 28, 2001
Counter functionality now available courtesy Site Meter, Inc. (external link).
Literature links now bold (thanks Mynga!).
July 27, 2001
Literature page now has links to AU National brochures.
Added several entries to the Links page.
Join AU Now page now has link to page with information about membership.
July 25, 2001
Announced President Susan Mogull's speaking engagement at the Auburn Unitarian Church.
July 14, 2001
Search functionality added, provided by Atomz (external link) (thanks Pat!).
Announcements page now has link to AU National Press Releases.
Colophon now includes Atomz Corporation graphic.
Page titles now have one word description of page contents.
Site CSS is validated CSS 2 compliant by W3C.
Site HTML is validated Transitional 4.01 compliant by W3C.
July 7, 2001
References to our chapter now include "#19" (thanks Mynga!).
"Join AU Now" page now has instructions on filling out National web site's
membership form.
July 5, 2001
Announcement archive now available.
Updated the announcements page to link to the archive.
Pages are now centered in the web browser (thanks Pat!).
July 4, 2001
Announced the next meeting date.
"About AU Sacramento" page now lists national and California constitutional provisions on separation of church and state.
"Join AU Now" page now has link to national membership sign-up page.
Visited links are now blue instead of red (thanks Paul!).
Copyright information on publication and distribution of web site materials published.
Users can now be added to the www.au-sac.org web site update notification email list.
June 10, 2001
AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND
STATE NATIONAL TRUSTEE DR. JOHN SUAREZ will speak on "Church/State
Issues in the Bush Administration" at the Sacramento Chapter #19 meeting
on Thursday, June 28, at 7 p.m. ....[ FULL INFO ]
Added text links below left menu-pane, "updated" graphic to home page.
June 09, 2001
The links now change color when you go over them.
I've added a colophon section (used to be "About This Web site").
Each file now is automatically time-stamped to show when it was last modified.
The AU description now shows us at 60,000 members and 5,000 religious affiliations.
I am working to make our pages handicap-accessible. The World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) Group has published a document entitled, "Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0," which specifies three levels of accessibility
ratings, "A", "AA", and "AAA." I'm working to make our site "AAA" rated.
I am also working to ensure that our site is fully HTML 4.0 compliant (this
ensures that all HTML 4.0 browsers can read our site).
