A day after Greenville County Sheriff’s deputies denied access to a reporter for The Greenville News who was trying to cover a controversial event at a public library, an agency spokesman described the incident as a misunderstanding. The reporter had planned to cover the Drag Queen Story Hour at the Five Forks branch of the Greenville County Library […]
PORT TOWNSEND — Disruptive visitors to Jefferson County government facilities can be temporarily removed from public buildings and could face yearlong entry restrictions under a newly approved trespass ordinance. County commissioners Tuesday unanimously passed the law, based on city of Port Townsend facility restrictions, over objections voiced at a hearing that the guidelines are vague […]
July was a busy month for Mayor Jim Kenney. He navigated two big controversies — the decision to evict, then reinstate the Made in America concert on the Ben Franklin Parkway and the nonrenewal of the city’s data-sharing contract with federal immigration authorities. A massive water-main break in Center City shut down streets for weeks. And Philadelphia’s first-term mayor went on […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A bill proposed by a Missouri state senator would close several lawmaker emails and other records from public access. Sen. Ed Emery on Tuesday pitched the bill to a Senate committee. The Lamar Republican’s proposal comes after voters in November approved a constitutional amendment making lawmaker records subject to the Sunshine […]
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Every legislative session there are efforts to limit or change the public’s access to government documents and records. And this year is no different. In the 111th Tennessee General Assembly, lawmakers have introduced a host of bills related to public records that could have an impact on residents across Tennessee. The following is an overview of some of those proposals. (Read more […]
The press secretary for former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has been cited for allegedly violating the Georgia Open Records Act in the first-ever criminal complaint filed in connection with the law, the state attorney general’s office announced Monday. Jenna Garland, 34, the press secretary during Reed’s second term, is accused of ordering a subordinate in […]
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The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled recently that state police personnel files are not completely off-limits under the Maryland Public Information Act, a finding that could broaden access to a whole range of information, experts say. The decision came after a long battle between the Maryland State Police and the local branch of the NAACP, which wanted to see […]
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A bill draft from Nevada’s attorney general may propose stiffer penalties for public officials who violate the state’s open-meeting law. During a meeting Wednesday, the attorney general’s Open Meeting Law Task Force — of which I am a member — looked at several possible changes to the law, including raising the fine for violations to $1,000 on […]
ST. PETERSBURG — As a commissioner on the St. Petersburg Housing Authority’s governing board, Terri Lipsey Scott considers it her duty to scrutinize how the agency is run. So Scott was taken aback when she recently received an email from the agency telling her she would have to pay $280 for agency records she requested […]
Reporting a story on the Park County sheriff last month, 9NEWS journalists Noel Brennan and Bryan Wendland were told they couldn’t bring their cameras into a county commissioners’ meeting that was open to the public. The cameras would be a “disruption,” Park County Commissioner Mike Brazell said. They would encourage “grandstanding,” County Attorney Erin Smith told the […]
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