From The Augusta Chronicle:
COLUMBIA — Most autopsies in South Carolina are paid for by taxpayers, but a state judge has decided they can no longer be reviewed by the public.
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From The Augusta Chronicle:
ATLANTA — Four of Georgia’s utility regulators have accepted at least 70 percent of their campaign contributions from companies and people that could profit from the agency’s decisions, a review of five years of campaign finance records by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed.
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From Yakima Herald-Republic:
A long-running legal effort by the Yakima Herald-Republic to learn how attorneys spent more than $2 million in taxpayer money to defend a pair of murderers has taken another step forward.
The state Supreme Court, in declining to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that unsealed some of the spending records, has opened the way for the eventual release of potential new information.
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From The Santa Fe New Mexican:
Republican lawyer Pat Rogers has resigned from his position as a board member of New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, following news stories highlighting private emails he sent to high-ranking members of Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration.
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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:
Florida appellate court: Student complaints are public record
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From The Daily Tar Heel:
A hearing will be held in Raleigh on Thursday to determine whether UNC must release documents related to the 2010 NCAA investigation of the University’s football team.
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From Jason Leopold at Truthout:
Nearly four years after changes to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) went into effect, the FBI, in response to a lawsuit in which I am a co-plaintiff, said the bureau would now begin to abide by a little-known provision in the law that requires all government agencies, when asked, to provide estimated dates of completion to records requesters.
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