Kudos to Missouri’s AG for doing the right thing! Attorney General Chris Koster released the Rams’ proposal for upgrading the Edward Jones Dome in compliance with Sunshine Law requests to the state of Missouri. Koster had announced May 7 that the state would release the documents today unless a judge said the records should remain [...]
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A federal judge has ruled that the last volume in a CIA history of the Bay of Pigs invasion that was written more than 30 years ago and 51 years after the ill-fated Cuban mission should remain secret. In an opinion released Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler said Volume V in the CIA’s Official [...]
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Victory! Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster on Monday said he intends to publicly release documents next week related to the St. Louis Rams’ plans to renovate the Edward Jones Dome. The secret plans have been at the center of a legal dispute between the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission and the Post-Dispatch. The CVC [...]
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A welcome development from St. Louis: a newspaper taking a secretive body to court. The St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission and the Post-Dispatch both filed lawsuits on Wednesday, presenting divergent arguments about records related to Dome renovations and what role public debate should have in the process. The CVC, a public agency that operates [...]
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Gov. Nathan Deal on Tuesday signed into law a sweeping revision of the state’s Open Records Act that strengthens the public’s access to records and documents. House Bill 397, which took effect upon Deal’s signature, is the first major rewrite of Georgia’s sunshine laws in more than a decade. New provisions in the open records [...]
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This fascinating and informative post from the wonderful Citizen Media Law Project brings the latest in the ongoing saga of requests for police dashcam videos in Seattle, raising timely issues of law, technology and policing… A must read.
Filed under: 3. Access law, 7. Electronic records, 8. Officials' perspectives, Transparency | Tagged: police, Privacy, Seattle, video, Washington | Leave a Comment »
Great news from Iowa, which has moved one big step closer to creating a state FOI obudsman… Iowa lawmakers on Tuesday moved a big step closer to creating a long-sought state agency for enforcing open-records laws and ensuring access to government. The House voted 92-7 to establish the Iowa Public Information Board, and a leading [...]
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This is a case worth watching, as this issue bedevils FOI advocates across the country: officials using e-mail to skirt open meetings laws… Virginia’s Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Monday in a case arising from Fairfax County schools that could impose new limits on how elected officials use e-mail to discuss public business. [...]
Filed under: 3. Access law, 7. Electronic records, Open meetings laws | Tagged: e-mail, open meetings laws, Virginia | Leave a Comment »
Is it just me, or did you think we had kind of already settled this point of law a decade ago? Accident reports compiled by troopers and maintained in a state database should be treated as public records available by request, Washington’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Justices said in their 7-2 decision that the Washington [...]
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KOMO, in Seattle, won a major victory — with an ironic twist, and one that will keep them waiting up to three years to see police dashboard cam videos. The irony? When they asked for millions of dollars to buy the cameras, openness was one of the major selling points… The KOMO 4 Problem Solvers sued [...]
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