October 19, 2011
From New York Post:
A lawsuit by a good-government group seeking the names and annual pensions of New York City Police Pension Fund retirees was quashed by a panel of three Appellate Division judges yesterday, setting up a battle in the state’s highest court.
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October 18, 2011
from O'Reilly Radar:
There's a growing international movement afoot worldwide to open up government data and make something useful with it. Civic apps based upon open data are emerging that genuinely serve citizens in a beneficial ways that officials may have not been able to deliver, particularly without significant time or increased expense
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October 18, 2011
From HeraldNet:
The public could know soon who signed petitions to put the question of expanded rights for same-sex couples up for a [Washington] statewide vote in 2009.
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A few items selected from many of interest recently.
Federal Chief Information Officer pay report
In this report, FierceGovernmentIT looked at base pay for federal CIOs in 2010. The average salary among the 16 CIOs in this report was $166,982. Four CIOs tied for the highest salary in 2010, raking in $179,700. Click through the site's slideshow or use the index to see the salaries of CIOs at agencies like the EPA and NASA.
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Oct. 13, 2011
From Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press:
The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act is heading to the state Supreme Court in what will likely be a legal battle over whether prosecutors can pursue misdemeanor criminal charges for violations of the broadly-worded law.
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Oct. 11, 2011
From First Amendment Coalition:
The First Amendment Coalition, with the aid of a NFOIC grant, has announced their new Open-Gov app for smartphones running the Android OS.
The app was completed on July 15, 2011, and is now available for free download in the Android market through this link. The app will be debuting in the Amazon App store soon.
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Oct. 10, 2011
The effort to convince the Administration to reverse its decision to bar public access to a health information database got support from leading university researchers and mentioned in the New York Times.
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Oct. 10, 2011
From Social Media in the Public Sector:
Assistant Professor Ines Mergel, of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has compiled a list of social media policies of U.S. federal government agencies and departments that are publicly available on the web.
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The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is backing a demand by the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), the National Freedom Of Information Coalition (NFOIC) and other groups that a Health and Human Services agency re-think and reverse its decision to remove a useful health-information database in a wrong-headed, punitive overreaction to a Kansas City Star report.
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A few items selected from many of interest recently.
Freedom of Information Bill tabled in Bahamas
NASSAU, Bahamas — The proposed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in The Bahamas has wide restrictions regarding what type of information is actually considered free.
The FOIA legislation, tabled in the House of Assembly on Wednesday, considers information to be anything contained in maps, plans, graphs, drawings, photographs, and on any other device on which data can be recorded.[…]
