From Multichannel News:
A random sampling of cable operators will be receiving survey forms from the Federal Communications Commission and have until July 27 to supply cable service and equipment pricing information.
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From Truthout.org:
My FOIA request was filed in May 2011. The FBI sent me a letter saying they were processing my request. Then, last August, the bureau sent out a special agent from the FBI's Tampa field office to speak with Hesham about my FOIA.
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From The Columbus Dispatch:
When school districts withhold public records, taxpayers don’t know what pay raises teachers will get until it’s a done deal, or how much a superintendent will be paid until the ink has dried on a new, multiyear agreement.
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From Northwest Herald:
Two bills aimed at improving Illinois residents’ right to know – both of which were fought by local government lobbyists – are on their way to Gov. Pat Quinn.
The General Assembly last week passed a bill requiring adding municipal, county and township employee salaries to the searchable state database and a bill aimed at improving meeting agendas.
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Opinion from Quad-City Times Executive Editor Jan Touney:
A story on Page A1 … details efforts by the Quad-City Times and The Gazette of Cedar Rapids to make public the name of an eastern Iowa business investigated in connection with a March outbreak of norovirus.
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A few national and state FOIA and open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week:
ACLU sues DOJ for digital surveillance data
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From Tracy Warner, editorial page editor, The Journal Gazette:
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Read More… from Public officials often wrongly bury public records out of public view
From Josh Gerstein's blog at Politico:
A federal judge has ordered the Defense Department to turn over to the court three video recordings showing Guantanamo prisoners being forced out of their cells.
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