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NJ Assembly blocks email addresses from release via OPRA
Shine light on N.H. public records
From SeaCoastOnline.com:
During a hearing on his budget Friday, N.H. Attorney General Michael Delaney complained “his office spent 3,983 hours reviewing right-to-know requests in 2010 and 2011 at a cost of $362,000,” The Associated Press reported.
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Open Data Institute to open this week, highlighting big data innovation in the UK
From TheNextWeb.com:
The Open Data Institute (ODI) officially opens this week and it is “a collaboration between businesses, entrepreneurs, researchers, government and society to unlock enterprise and social value from the vast amount of open government data now being made available”.
That’s quite a mouthful – put plainly, there’s a truck load of open data around, so let’s have at it and see what we can do.
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Confidential information?
From HudsonReporter.com:
The Board of Education is investigating whether board trustee Dora Marra committed an ethics violation by allegedly distributing school board business-related documents to former board trustee Tom Troyer, according to board president Jack McStowe.
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Public Records: $60,000 penalty puts access at risk
From The Press-Enterprise:
When the publisher of a small-town newspaper north of Sacramento made a public records request to learn more about spending done by school officials, he had no idea it would threaten the existence of the Sacramento Valley Mirror.
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Steve Lovejoy: Burlington leads way on openness
From Wisconsin State Journal:
Recently the city of Burlington made some changes to its website, adding a feature it calls a “performance dashboard.” The online tool gives city residents a better look — much of it in real time — about what their government is doing.
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OGP transparency officials chosen to hold ‘government’s feet to fire’
From The Guardian:
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) has officially unveiled the senior advisors that will oversee transparency commitments made by member countries to coincide with the launch of the Open Data Institute (ODI).
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Lynchburg officials talk about freedom of information at the Virginia Coalition for Open Government
From NewsAdvance.com:
Lynchburg still is working to get copies of the Freedom of Information Act to its volunteer boards and commissions after concluding its past education efforts had been hit or miss.
“I would say they were mostly miss,” said City Manager Kimball Payne, noting the city had no uniform approach for training new board appointees until this year. “… We’re trying to raise that consciousness.”
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