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Better Government Association sues Chicago Police Department
From HuffingtonPost:
The Better Government Association has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department in an effort to compel the release of plainclothes officer deployment data the department has refused to make public, citing safety concerns to circumvent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) transparency requirements.
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Tennessee Coalition for Open Government seeks executive director
Tennessee Coalition for Open Government (TCOG) is seeking candidates who are interested in joining our organization as its Executive Director.
TCOG is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and non-partisan alliance of media, citizen and professional groups working to educate Tennesseans about their right to know about the affairs of their government as set out in the Tennessee constitution and Tennessee’s “sunshine” laws, including the open meetings and public records laws.
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New legal argument surprises in UConn FOI case
From CT News Junkie:
A lawyer for the state Freedom of Information Commission abandoned an argument his office had been making for the past three years when he got to the Supreme Court on Monday, confusing the Supreme Court Justices and the man who filed the FOI complaint.
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Texas attorney general introduces electronic filing system for open records ruling requests
White House to open source Data.gov
Keeping records secret expensive for school district
From CalAware Today:
A Northern California school district’s commitment to unlawful secrecy cost it an estimated $300,000 in attorney’s fees—most of it paid to two different law firms to unsuccessfully defend against a parent’s lawsuit to obtain access to his son’s pupil records, the parent says.
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NFOIC’s FOI Friday for December 2 2011
A few items selected from many of interest recently.
Cyber security bill promotes sharing of threat data
Legislation introduced in the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday is designed to knock down the barriers that interfere with the federal government and the private sector sharing critical information about cybersecurity threats.
Visit CNN:Security Clearance for the rest.
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