From Iron Mountain:
It seems as if every facet of government is reaching out and touching the public via social networks, blogs, email and other so-called Web 2.0 applications. And the public is touching back, making suggestions and submitting information.
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From Sunshine Review:
Only Iowa and Tennessee expressly limit the records that can be released by the military, reserves or guard. Tennessee expands on this exempting only security information while Iowa makes reference to "confidential records". In addition to these two states, a number of states exempt military discharge information, though that is more a question of personal privacy.
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From AnnArbor.com:
A retired Ann Arbor pathologist has filed a lawsuit against the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, claiming he was not given the full video of an alleged theft from a court employee’s car in 2011.
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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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From Lake Forester:
The Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has made it possible for anyone to request records of all public entities such as municipalities, schools and park districts to bolster government transparency. How much time and money local entities spend on fulfilling FOIA requests, in some cases, has grown dramatically.
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From WUSA9.com:
Arlington County's PoliceChief just wants this story to go away. The perception that his department has a quota system. Through a FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, request, WUSA 9 News obtained a pile of internal memos pertaining to expectations for numbers of tickets and arrests. Several give the appearance of a quota system.
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From The Register-Guard:
In his March 25 Commentary article, Robert Roth included a partial quotation from me to suggest that I have concerns with the court’s ruling in Dumdi vs. Handy. That is not the case. I always have believed that Oregon’s Open Meetings Law prohibited the conduct that led the court to conclude two Lane County commissioners willfully violated Oregon’s public meeting law.
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Read More… from GUEST VIEWPOINT: Inconvenience the price for open government
From MyWestTexas.com:
We have been disappointed in the 15 city leaders who have challenged the Texas Open Meetings Act in court since 2009. We think this is an effort to protect elected officials from doing the public’s business in the open.
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From Honolulu Civil Beat:
If you care about holding government officials' feet to the fire when it comes to public records, you should be concerned about a bill theHawaii Office of Information Practices is pushing at the Legislature.
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Read More… from Let Us Now Praise a Lone Hawaii Voice Fighting for Open Records
