From PBS:
Storing paper records in the attic of a police station might sound like a practice from the distant past, but that's what I learned happens in at least one rural North Carolina county. In fact, good old-fashioned paper copies of public records are still common in rural parts of North Carolina.
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From Deseret News:
SALT LAKE CITY — An advocate for open government, Rep. Kraig Powell, R-Heber City, is sponsoring two bills aimed at that goal, one serious and the other to make a point.
HB89 requires a political caucus to be open to the public if a quorum of the body is present and legislation is being discussed.
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Read More… from Open government laws introduced in Utah Legislature
From FAS Project on Government Secrecy:
More than two years ago, President Obama set a December 31, 2013 deadline for completing the declassification processing of a backlog of more than 400 million pages of classified historical records that were over 25 years old. But judging from the limited progress to date, it now seems highly unlikely that the President’s directive will be fulfilled.
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Read More… from Agencies are likely to miss 2013 declassification deadline
By KENNETH F. BUNTING
COLUMBIA, Mo. — It was so ho-hummedly and matter-of-factly reported that few would sense its importance when reading it.
The district attorney’s office found that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors had clearly—and rather flagrantly—violated the state’s open meetings law when they met with Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown in a secret, closed-door meeting last fall to iron out details for moving thousands of state prison inmates to county jails.
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From pressofAtlanticCity:
The polishing of Atlantic City’s public image will be done by an organization that functions in private.
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Read More… from Atlantic City Alliance keeps private how it gets publicity for city
A few open government and FOIA news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier:
South Dakota GOP official joins with Democrats to support open government
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