From York Daily Record:
York, PA — Pennsylvania and Delaware are the only states in the nation to specifically exclude major universities from their state open records laws, according to some experts, though efforts are under way in both states to change that.
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From The Republic:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel's office says police disciplinary records can be released under the state's open records law, a decision that factors into an alleged instance of excessive force involving an off-duty Little Rock police officer.
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From Las Vegas Review-Journal:
CARSON CITY — Former Gov. Jim Gibbons must give a description of the contents of each of the 98 email messages he refused to give the Reno Gazette-Journal in 2008.
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Read More… from Nevada Supreme Court rules against governor regarding emails
From azcentral.com:
A judge this month ordered the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office to pay The Arizona Republic and KPNX 12 News nearly $51,000 for its legal fees in obtaining public records.
The Sheriff's Office says it will appeal.
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A few items selected from many of interest that we might not have drawn attention to earlier:
Obama administration makes some transparency gains; challenges remain
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and OpenTheGovernment.org released a joint report, Measuring Transparency Under the FOIA: The Real Story Behind the Numbers, analyzing the government’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) data for 2010 and how it compares to the previous administration’s data.
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From Open Channel on MSNBC:
It appears it was legal for Mitt Romney's aides, on their way out of the governor's office in Massachusetts in 2006, to write personal checks for $65 each to buy the hard drives from their state office computers, taking with them government emails and other records of his administration, including information about the birth of the Romney health care insurance mandate.
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Read More… from Romney’s missing hard drives raise open records questions
From The Baltimore Sun:
An effort to open Maryland state government to greater scrutiny, while making the General Assembly more "transparent," got off the ground Wednesday as a panel set up for that purpose convened for the first time.
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Read More… from Maryland General Assembly moves toward more ‘transparency’
Opinion from The Times Leader:
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The key: Strip away the secrecy of those involved, and their bad behavior ends.
That same notion applies on a much larger and more consequential level in Pennsylvania, where state law allows people – often with the help of the startup state Office of Open Records – to sleuth through public information about state and county governments, local school boards and other taxpayer-funded bodies.
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From The Wichita Eagle:
WICHITA — Go Wichita, the convention and visitors’ bureau, will receive its annual budget of more than $2 million in public funds amid concerns that it does not comply with open-government laws.
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What looked like a routine measure on the council agenda erupted into a debate about whether private agencies funded by the public should be exempt from state open records laws.
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Read More… from Go Wichita gets budget approved amid controversy over public accountability
