From news-press.com:
Florida’s Legislature will undertake bills this year that will make it easier for individuals to speak at government meetings and define record-keeping for newly elected officials.
“All in all, it is not a bad session,” said Barbara Petersen, director of the First Amendment Foundation in Tallahassee.
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From The Columbia Daily Tribune:
A St. Louis-area lawmaker has filed legislation that essentially would undo a University of Missouri System policy restricting what students can do with recorded classroom lectures.
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From The Post and Courier:
On the night of Jan. 8, a trio of robbers burst into a popular supermarket in suburban West Ashley (SC) and held terrified employees at gunpoint while they plundered cash from the store's safe.
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From the Daily News – Jacksonville North Carolina:
The release of a 180-page federal agency report detailing drinking water systems aboard Camp Lejeune but redacting information about active wells has raised the hackles of a number of military watchdogs.
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From The Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah’s news media learned the public is passionately interested in protecting open government during 2011’s legislative session, when lawmakers rewrote Utah’s records law.
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From The News Tribune:
Whatcom County (WA) Council members are "highly discouraged" from using their personal email accounts for county business, under a new policy under consideration.
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From the Student Press Law Center:
The South Carolina attorney general intervened Tuesday in a state Supreme Court case to decide whether school administrator associations fall under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act.
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From courier-journal.com:
FRANKFORT, KY. — In a sharply critical decision, a judge has ordered a state agency to pay $16,550 in fines and $56,663 in legal costs to three newspapers for illegally withholding public records involving child-abuse deaths and serious injuries.
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A few open government and FOIA news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier:
Private-sector lobbyists stand to collect public-sector pensions
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