Not really FOI, but hey, this is getting downright ridiculous: A Las Vegas police officer detained a man for refusing to walk away after taking a photo of a movie set that was completely visible to the public. The man video recorded his interaction, which doesn’t show the officer’s face or name, but allows us [...]
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Kudos to Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal Sentinel investigative reporter Gina Barton, whose excellent October 2011 three-part series “Both Sides of the Law” found that at least 93 Milwaukee police officers had been disciplined for violating laws and ordinances, but didn’t lose their jobs. Barton said it took nearly two years of records requests, a court case, and $7,500 in [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 2. Doc state of mind, 3. Access law, 6. Overcoming denials | Tagged: Law Enforcement, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, police | Leave a Comment »
And in news of the truly inane…has anyone considered what happens when the death involves, say, a controversial police shooting??? A bill seeking to exempt depictions of deaths from Florida’s public records laws is making its way through the legislature, and freedom-of-information advocates are warning that the repercussions of such a broad measure could be [...]
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A nice look at the collateral damage likely to occur as a result of HB477: While much of the focus of the controversial HB477 has been on how it might affect the public’s access to state lawmakers, the new law may also potentially affect thousand of residents in a much more direct way. Local police [...]
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A Pennsylvania state appeals court ruled Thursday that incident reports filed by state police officers are not public records, citing an exemption in the state’s Right to Know Law that protects from public disclosure “a record of an agency relating to or resulting in a criminal investigation.” The court’s 6-1 ruling reversed an earlier decision [...]
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Image via Wikipedia This is an incredible story… A Nueces County grand jury on Friday indicted the executive director of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards on two felony counts related to the release of information about an inmate suicide. Adan Munoz, 62, was indicted on two counts of misuse of official information, according to [...]
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