At the regular Natrona County Commission meeting last week, Commissioner Steve Schlager accused the commission’s chairman and vice chairman of withholding information and making decisions outside of regular sessions.
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When its proposed national drone registry comes online, the Federal Aviation Administration will be poised to collect the names and street addresses of recreational drone users across the country. Who will be able to access that data after it is collected? If the FAA’s drone task force has its way, the answer will be not journalists. Continue…
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Coloradans achieved the important right to review voted ballots as open records through a costly legal battle culminating in a state court of appeals victory in 2011.
And the legislature affirmed this critical citizen right to see voted ballots in a bill it passed the following year. Continue…
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What would cause a law professor to sue the school he’s working for? Okay, eliminate the obvious employment law-related causes of action, and what are you left with? And is this a case of biting the hand that feeds you?
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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The Internal Revenue Service must pay $239,400 in attorneys' fees after losing a lawsuit over access to digital records, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Public.Resource.org, a nonprofit that makes government records accessible to the public, sued the IRS in June 2013 for failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request. Continue…
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The most common Sunshine Law violations in Missouri include closed-session discussions on issues that should be open to the public, according to a report released Monday by state Auditor Nicole Galloway.
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When the Center for Open Policing recently reached a settlement with the city of Seattle that garnered it more than $30,000 and access to GPS data on the location of police vehicles, it was the latest in a string of legal victories for the shoestring organization.
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The North Dakota higher education board has a clear interest in getting the fullest possible evaluations of the system's presidents.
That means the people of North Dakota have an interest in getting those evaluations, too, given that the board members are the people's duly appointed representatives. Continue…
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VALDOSTA — Valdosta State University held a Journalism and Government Transparency Forum Saturday at the Odum Library.
The event, which was attended by journalists, VSU students and members of the community, discussed Georgia’s sunshine laws, the First Amendment, and how members of the community, not just journalists, could use both to their advantage. Continue…
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