Enforcing Oklahoma’s Open Records Act is largely left to average citizens

From Tulsa World:

A Yukon couple took the rare path of filing an open records lawsuit after their school district refused to turn over records involving an investigation into a school agricultural program.

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NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for November 16, 2012

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:

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Oklahoma state senator wants Legislature under open meeting, records laws

From news-star.com:

SHAWNEE, Okla. — Sen. David Holt, R-Oklahoma City, has filed legislation to make the Oklahoma Legislature subject to the Open Meetings and Open Records Acts.   Those two statutes have long provided transparency to all levels of government, but not the Legislature, which exempted itself. 

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