See how bad FOI ideas get started? Just mix one opportunistic politician, one troubled celebrity…and voila! Related articles Assemblywoman wants 911 recordings protected (abclocal.go.com) Should the Demi Moore 911 Call Be Public? (eonline.com)
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A former student, Brian Joseph, with a nice look at secrecy in California: Critics of California’s in-home supportive services program believe there may be scores of people like Joowan Kim. In February, Kim pled guilty to fraud and is serving three years probation for cheating the program out of $33,345. For nearly two years, Kim [...]
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Nice piece on access to legislative calendars. Why the secrecy?
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An interesting story on access to calendar items… Officials from San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have thrown open their daily calendars, allowing insight into whom they choose to meet and how they fill their days doing the taxpayers’ business. But in California’s state capital, even lawmakers willing to divulge [...]
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The California Senate has unanimously approved a constitutional amendment authored by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, to ensure public bodies follow requirements to post agendas and to disclose any actions taken. If approved by two-thirds of the Assembly, Senate Constitutional Amendment 7 would go before voters during the next statewide ballot. SCA 7 comes after [...]
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The pensions of retirees from Sacramento County government are a matter of public record and cannot be kept secret, the California Third District Court of Appeal says. The Sacramento Bee newspaper had sought the records of individual retirees who were getting pensions of over $100,000 annually as part of its investigation into controversial retirement practices [...]
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Passing along from the First Amendment Law Prof Blog: State Senator Leland Yee has recently filed the Court Transparency Bill, SB 326, which would require state courts to make newly filed court records available for public inspection no later than the end of the day on which those record were received by the court. The bill’s [...]
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The Pacific Research Institute, a self-described “free market think tank” (I always love that kind of self-depiction…it’s as if all other policy groups are for non-free markets…and assumes there is any such thing as free markets, but I digress…) has released a really nice report on the state of FOI in California, which I have [...]
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