From CantonRep.com:
Last week, we celebrated Sunshine Week, the annual observance of the importance of access to public information and what it means to you and our community.
We published several guest columns from representatives of various media organizations around the country and our state. Each one spelled out why public records belong to you, the taxpayer.
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Read More… from Therese D. Hayt: Ohio’s public records law is facing new restrictions
From The Columbus Dispatch:
In celebration of Sunshine Week, here’s a primer on making public-records requests in Ohio. It’s your government, your money, your records. Government merely is the custodian of the people’s records — not the owner.
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From Punderbund.com:
Today is the third day of Sunshine Week, 2013 and while many of us are writing about the importance of open government and access to public information, Ohio’s Republicans are working furiously behind the scenes to try to restrict that access.
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From Gallipolis Daily Tribune:
COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has released his office’s 2013 edition of “Ohio Sunshine Laws: An Open Government Resource Manual,” also known as the “Yellow Book.” The release of the updated manual coincides with the start of National Sunshine Week, taking place from March 10-16.
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From The Columbus Dispatch:
Today marks the beginning of Sunshine Week, a national initiative to promote government transparency and citizen access to public records and meetings.
Unfortunately, the forecast for openness in Ohio is growing cloudier.
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Read More… from NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for March 8, 2013
From Toledo Blade:
COLUMBUS — If the current state of public records law were a student, Ohio should be worried that the once-star pupil is now in danger of failing, a First Amendment lawyer said Thursday.
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From HuntingtonNews.net:
A two-day radiation dose reconstruction board meeting held in Cincinnati, Ohio may have included revisions to the site profile of the Huntington Pilot Plant, according to Terrie Barrie, founding member Alliance of Nuclear Workers Advocacy Groups.
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HNN has filed a FOIA request for the data.
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From toledoBlade.com:
WAUSEON — Sunshine Review, a national nonprofit group that aims to encourage state and local government transparency, has given Fulton County an A+.
The county previously scored a ‘C’ in that area and even was found to have violated Ohio’s Sunshine Law, written to ensure citizens know when officials plan to hold meetings and make decisions.
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From Cleveland.com:
The Federal Trade Commission knows what its undercover investigators found in sweeps of Cleveland-area funeral homes conducted last year. But you, as a member of the public, aren’t allowed to know – even though the Funeral Rule was created to protect you.
The agency recently denied a Freedom of Information Act appeal for more information about the sweeps and the violations.
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Read More… from FTC keeps funeral rule lapses buried: plain dealing
