Today’s plot twist in the Wisconsin recall saga contained a nugget of interest to FOI types…in a story on criminal charges being filed against a couple of Walker associates for politicking on state time, came this: Milwaukee County prosecutors also made the surprising disclosure that top Walker aides set up a private Internet network to [...]
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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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Wow…several states have flirted with passing laws this bad, but hey, Wyoming, way to go! You just manned up and went there, didn’t ya? State lawmakers voted today to draft legislation that would make emails sent to members of city councils, school boards and other elected bodies exempt from public records law. The legislation would [...]
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Raum Emanuel, in three months as Chicago mayor, has done more to open City Hall to sunlight than any mayor in the country….from the Sun-Times: Information on more than 90,000 city contracts dating back to 1993 will be available and easy to download on the Internet, thanks to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s latest move to shine [...]
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Here’s a riveting story on an outfit that uses public records to demonstrate how exposed you are, then charges you to remove the information….what a racket! Philip Cabibi, a 31-year-old applications administrator in Utah, sat at his computer one recent Sunday evening and performed one of the compulsive rituals of the Internet Age: the ego [...]
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How much fun is this?
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From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a shameless attempt to wring fees from data: Journalists have elbowed into Cuyahoga County’s dispute over the cost of CDs loaded with deeds and mortgages, arguing that the public should have the databases at cost. The county wants to charge more than $200,000 for CDs of property records, based on a state [...]
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This is kinda cool.
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