Perhaps the World’s First Protest Against FOI?

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

If anyone has pictures of protesters with signs from this rally, which reportedly was held today….I’d love to see ‘em. One University of Michigan faculty member wants to make sure university leaders take great care in responding to the controversial Freedom of Information Act requests filed by theMackinac Center late last month. Ian Robinson, a lecturer in the Department [...]

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More on the Academic Freedom-FOI Flap….

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

Newsy has a nice rundown… And Jack Shafer, as is so often the case, makes the point so, so, so much better than I have. Here’s the money graf: Take, for example, the lawsuit filed against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker by the Associated Press and the Madison, Wis., Isthmus after his team ignored open records requests for [...]

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An FOI Request = The New American Thought Police? See, This is why I was Worried About Blowback…

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

Krugman in the Times today: So we don’t need to worry about Mr. Cronon — but we should worry a lot about the wider effect of attacks like the one he’s facing. Legally, Republicans may be within their rights: Wisconsin’s open records law provides public access to e-mails of government employees, although the law was [...]

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The New York Times weighs in on the Wisconsin email issue…

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

Nothing here to advance the story, but love the quote from Bill Lueders of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council: “I’m pleased to see the Republicans making use of the open records law because they are as entitled to it as everyone else in the state,” said Bill Lueders, the president of theWisconsin Freedom of [...]

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