Opinion from FoothillsMediaGroup.com:
Connecticut’s Freedom of Information law was once the pride of the nation. It has withstood numerous assaults by judges, legislators and other officials with plenty to hide.
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Read More… from Andy Thibault: Want the bum’s rush? Ask for public records in Connecticut
From the New England First Amendment Coalition:
Virtually every news organization in Connecticut has joined a friend of the court action to the state Supreme Court asking it to overturn a lower court restriction on how much information police must release in a criminal investigation.
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Read More… from Sandy Hook Massacre the focus of one of two major Conn. FOI cases
From The Middletown Press:
(Nov 10, 2012) – The Region 13 school district was the second slowest in the state to respond to a request for a copy of the superintendent’s contract in a recent test done by three daily newspapers.
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From Hartford Courant:
The Office of State Ethics has quietly destroyed a quarter-century’s worth of public records concerning the finances of present and former public officials, drawing a protest from the head of an open-government group who says the thousands of shredded files were an irreplaceable resource.
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A few state FOIA and local open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week:
Legal memo: Text messages are public records in Alaska
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Read More… from NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for September 7, 2012
From Connecticut 5th District:
The New Haven Register and Register Citizen filed a complaint with the State Freedom of Information Commission Friday afternoon over the city of Waterbury’s refusal to release documents related to former Gov. John Rowland‘s work as a taxpayer-funded economic development coordinator.
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Read More… from FOIA complaint filed after City of Waterbury refuses to release John Rowland records
From CTNewsJunkie:
Lawmakers planned Tuesday to amend one of the two special session bills to remove a controversial provision which would have created a new exemption to the state’s Freedom of Information law regarding money the state sends to businesses.
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From Stamford Advocate:
The state Freedom of Information Commission ordered Board of Ethics members to undergo Freedom of Information training after ruling the board's hearing panel improperly entered an executive session during a May 2011 meeting.
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Read More… from City representative wins FOI complaint against ethics board
