The wonderful Sunlight Foundation has launched a campaign to make sure that the Super Committee is transparent during its meetings and that the public is aware of all of its operations — in a timely manner. The campaign includes a nifty transparency resources and public response webpage to provide a better understanding of the issue, Congress’ [...]
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Kathryn Foxhall is a one-woman army. Her blog, PR Office Censorship, is a fresh source of outrage, compiling incident after incident of government minders straight out of a bad Banana Republic… Her latest? The Department of Health and Human Services last week released a media policywhich makes it official that staff members and reporters are forbidden [...]
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A bill that would prevent people from seeing autopsy records in the possession of county coroners is on its way for consideration by the full state Senate. The Senate Local Government Committee voted in favor of the bill Tuesday, 10 months after then-Gov. Ed Rendellvetoed a similar measure. The only “no” vote was by Lackawanna Democratic Sen.John Blake. The law [...]
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The Wall Street Journal does a nice blog summary of a titanic struggle in FOIA circles: Justice Department attorneys said the CIA has located 52 photographs and video recordings of bin Laden during the May raid that killed him, but the DOJ contends the images are classified and being withheld from the public to avoid [...]
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A Rogers County judge denied a request for the release of a dash cam video recorded by the Claremore Police Department, ruling that under the state’s Open Records Act, the footage is “not a public record.” Associate District Judge Sheila Condren heard evidence in a nonjury trial in August, according to Tulsa World. Attorney Stephen Fabian [...]
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The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press today published the 6th Edition of its Open Government Guide, a comprehensive overview of open records and open meetings laws in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The guide is available free on the Reporters Committee website at www.rcfp.org/ogg, where users can cross-reference and compare the laws [...]
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