Misleading and lying toward a more open government
Opinion from the Citizen Media Law Project:
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Illinois attorney general rules that Champaign school district should release complaint
From The News-Gazette:
CHAMPAIGN — The Illinois attorney general's office has ruled that the Champaign school district should release a complaint filed against former Superintendent Arthur Culver to The News-Gazette.
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Times-Virginian FOIA request denied by Appomattox County Sheriff’s Department
From the Times-Virginian:
A lawsuit has been filed in Albemarle County that claims an Appomattox County deputy is to blame for the death of man who was shot by a Taser last year.
The lawsuit accuses Appomattox Deputy Denney Wright of shooting Daniel Russell with a Taser on Oct. 30, 2010, during a traffic stop.
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CIA monitoring Twitter, Facebook
From PCMAG.com:
Before you tweet an inside joke about a terrorist movie like "United 93" or "Munich," you should know—the CIA might start following you.
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Is there such a thing as too much transparency?
Supreme Court rejects proposed rule to limit sealed cases
Maryland begins charging for real time access to official announcements
Government shuts down public access to physician’s malpractice database
From the Injury Board Blog Network:
A government health agency has revoked the public’s access to a database of healthcare practitioner’s malpractice and other negative history, even though its records are anonymous, due to the pressure of one physician after a reporter figured out which record was his and published a story about him.
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New Hampshire Supreme Court upholds access to pension information
From Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press:
The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled … that the public has a right of access to the names of state pension benefit recipients as well as the amounts they receive. The court decided that the public interest in releasing the information outweighed any privacy interests of the individuals named within the records.
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NFOIC FOI Friday for November 4 2011
A few items selected from many of interest recently.
Justice Department drops non-disclosure proposal for FOIA requests
The United States Justice Department announced, yesterday, that it was dropping a proposed controversial rule that would allow it to deny the existence of sensitive documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
Visit NPR for the rest.
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