Louisiana’s lawmakers are considering ways to lock away more information from public view this session, proposing a list of public records exemptions that would chip away at people’s rights to see information from government agencies. The number and breadth of exemptions filed for consideration represent an uptick, raising concerns that public officials are working to […]
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office complied with Louisiana’s public records law in responding to an environmental group’s request for documents about an oil pipeline project, a judge ruled Friday. State District Court Judge Wilson Fields refused to order Edwards’ office to conduct another search for records requested by the Louisiana […]
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From The Advocate – Baton Rouge:
LSU denied public access to emails and documents related to budget cuts for public hospitals and efforts to move more of the LSU health care operations into the private sector.
Shelby McKenzie, a private Baton Rouge lawyer acting as LSU System’s general counsel, said Tuesday that his clients are invoking the “deliberative process privilege” to keep those records secret.
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From NECN.com:
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After saying last August that a public records request would be fulfilled, Louisiana’s education department is again refusing to provide The Associated Press with records on how schools were chosen to participate in Gov. Bobby Jindal’s new statewide voucher program.
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From HoumaToday.com:
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana's education chief has refused to provide records from the deliberations over how schools were chosen to participate in Gov. Bobby Jindal's new statewide voucher program, which is using tax dollars to send students to private and parochial schools.
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From DailyComet.com:
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal's budget office is refusing to release most of its records involving the state's alternative fuel vehicle tax credit, claiming those can be kept confidential under an exemption in public records law.
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