From MercuryNews.com:
When one makes a request for records under the law, the government has 10 calendar days to reply in a specific, formal, if you will, way.
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All of the responsibility to deal with a request and to follow the law is on the government, which is very clearly subordinate to the requester of records. In other words, the public is in charge.
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From Santa Fe New Mexican.com:
The New Mexico Supreme Court this week significantly curtailed the power of state officials to use executive privilege to deny public records requests.
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In a 21-page opinion, Justice Patricio Serna wrote that executive privilege only applies to the governor and documents involving advice from the governor’s closest aides. It does not apply to cabinet secretaries and other officials, the court ruled.
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A few state FOIA and local and Federal open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week:
NM court limits executive privilege in IPRA case
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From Bill Lueders, president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council:
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From The Republic:
MADISON, Wis. — Government entities can't charge the public for time spent deleting confidential information from records, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
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From Merchant Herald:
Today, Citizens for a Healthy Community and the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado to force the government to reveal the names of the individuals or corporations that nominated 30,000 acres of public lands in Colorado’s North Fork Valley for oil and gas drilling.
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