This story made possible by FOI: A barrage of frantic 911 calls made by motorists moments before Diane Schuler’s drunken crash killed eight people has finally been made public, bringing the tragedy back to life for a Yonkers man who lost two relatives that day… Related articles by Zemanta Kid dials 911 as drunk mom [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Speakers’ contracts are ALWAYS a lot of fun to obtain via FOI — try it on your local campus! Sarah Palin fought like a, well, renegade, but lost her bid to keep her contract secret…. A California university on Thursday released Sarah Palin’s contract for a June speech in order to comply [...]
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Image via Wikipedia This is an incredible story… A Nueces County grand jury on Friday indicted the executive director of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards on two felony counts related to the release of information about an inmate suicide. Adan Munoz, 62, was indicted on two counts of misuse of official information, according to [...]
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A three-year court battle between the Mail Tribune and Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters over concealed handgun license public records has cost the county nearly $44,000. Winters was required to pay the newspaper’s legal expenses after the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled in June that Winters was wrong to deny the Mail Tribune’s request for [...]
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The First Amendment Center brings us today’s fresh heaping of outrage… Citizen complaints brought against police are subject to public disclosure, according to a state Court of Appeals ruling that reinforces a New Mexico sunshine law granting access to government records. The court ruled this week against the state Department of Public Safety, which refused [...]
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Image via Wikipedia After Iceland‘s near-economic collapse laid bare deep-seated corruption, the country aims to become a safe haven for journalists and whistleblowers from around the globe by creating the world’s most far-reaching freedom of information legislation. On 16 June a unanimous parliament voted in favour of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a resolution aimed [...]
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I rave about Michael Ravnitzky (mikerav@verizon.net). He’s gathered thousands of federal records and knows his way around FOIA probably more than anyone else. He recently posted tips on the FOI Listserv on how to get copies of complaints against companies that have been filed with the Federal Trade Commission. This is how, in his words: [...]
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Image via Wikipedia It’s official: a full-body security scanner can theoretically store your blurry nude picture. After a Freedom of Information Act request from the advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center, the U.S. Marshals Service released 100 of 35,314 stored images taken by a scanner at an Orlando, Florida, courthouse. Though airport security scanners use [...]
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This is a sportswriter in a documents state of mind! Florida associate athletic director Greg McGarity and long-time NFL executive Jim Steeg are among 49 people who have asked to be considered for the vacant athletic-director position at the University of Georgia. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday obtained, under Georgia’s Open Records Act, copies of e-mails, letters [...]
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