A few state FOIA and local open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week:
Dewey Beach (Del.) citizens question legality of development vote
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Read More… from NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for August 10, 2012
From Washingtonpost.com:
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — News media organizations were set Thursday to ask the judge in the Colorado theater shooting case to unseal court documents and scale back a gag order that bars a university from releasing details about a former student who is the alleged gunman.
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Read More… from News orgs challenge seal on documents in Colo. theater shooting case
From HoumaToday.com:
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana's education chief has refused to provide records from the deliberations over how schools were chosen to participate in Gov. Bobby Jindal's new statewide voucher program, which is using tax dollars to send students to private and parochial schools.
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Read More… from La. Education Department withholding voucher records
From MyEasternShoreMD.com:
ANNAPOLIS – The General Assembly's Joint Committee on Transparency and Open Government met last month in Annapolis, and the recorded meeting showed how digital technology can both help and hurt the public's ability to see and hear what their legislators are up to.
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Read More… from Maryland General Assembly committee discusses open government
From Shawnee Dispatch:
Some Shawnee residents, including at least one member of the City Council, say the municipal government has transparency issues.
Mayor Jeff Meyers, however, wants to make one thing perfectly clear: “I am super confident I did not break the Kansas Open Meeting Act (KOMA) rules.”
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Read More… from Open government has become contentious issue in Shawnee
From RCFP.org:
The steering committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has selected Bruce D. Brown, a former journalist and most recently a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Baker & Hostetler, as the organization’s new executive director.
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Read More… from Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press names new executive director
From Government Computer News:
The Housing and Urban Development Department has automated its case records management to improve compliance with the requirements of theFreedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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Read More… from HUD automates records management to better handle FOIA requests
From Kansas City.com:
WASHINGTON — A former official in Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell's administration says the governor's office sees text messages as a way to communicate about sensitive issues while avoiding public disclosure through the state's open records law.
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Read More… from Alaska pols, others skirting disclosure rules by texting
From The State:
Forty-four states require legislators to disclose who they work for. Many also require some disclosure about how much those legislators are paid by their employers.
Not South Carolina.
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Read More… from Public records reform effort faces uphill fight in S.C.
