NEW ORLEANS — Private and public workplace employees face an evolving threat to democracy: gag rules, which state that people are not allowed to speak freely or express their opinions about a particular subject. Kathryn Foxhall, a veteran reporter on federal health issues, and Frank LoMonte, CNN legal counsel and a distinguished First Amendment lawyer, presented to members of the Society of Professional Journalists at the “Jazzed about Journalism” Regions 8 and 12 Conference in early ...