An Essex County judge today ordered Newark to turn over an itemized list of e-mails surrounding Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million donation to the city’s schools. The order by Superior Court Judge Rachel Davidson is the latest chapter in an ongoing legal battle between the city and the ACLU of New Jersey, which is [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 3. Access law, 6. Overcoming denials | Tagged: e-mails, Facebook, New Jersey | Leave a Comment »
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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A nice look at a time-honored headache: the governor’s e-mails… For politicians, there is one time-tested method for thwarting public records requests: stall and stall and, when in doubt, stall. This January, for instance, Alaskan officials finally responded to September 2008 requests for former Republican Gov. Sarah Palin’s emails, promising to release the files by the end [...]
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The Austin American Statesman had an interesting piece on e-mail access: Worried that Austin City Council members may not have turned over all of their emails, officials are bringing in city technology experts as they make a new attempt at complying with the state’s open records law. Information technology workers are compiling the records — [...]
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