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 »
This kind of stuff makes my head literally ache: a story that allows a proponent of secrecy to make age-old arguments against open searches completely, utterly unchallenged by, well, fact… Florida’s open records laws will impact the quality of applicants seeking the Duval County Public Schools superintendent position, according to the president of a national [...]
Filed under: 3. Access law, 8. Officials' perspectives, Open meetings laws | Tagged: Florida, school districts, secret searches, superintendents | Leave a Comment »
It’s a fundamental flaw in the fabric of FOI: requesters stonewalled by government agencies square off with taxpayer-funded lawyers with all the time in the world on their hands… Signaling their intention to go to court forever to withhold information from the public, lawyers for 15 city officials begin today trying to convince the 5th [...]
Filed under: 3. Access law, Open meetings laws | Tagged: constitutional challenges, open meetings law, Texas, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals | Leave a Comment »
Now here is a problem in need of a solution, and a public official with a fine idea! Did the new Olympia City Council begin the new year with an illegal council meeting? Unfortunately, members of the public will never know the answer to that question because there is no audio or video record of [...]
Filed under: 3. Access law, Open meetings laws | Tagged: executive sessions, open meetings, Washington State | Leave a Comment »
