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Tag: public records lawsuit
WA high court to hear KOMO’s public records suit
From KOMOnews.com:
SEATTLE (Dec 5, 2012) — Washington state’s highest court will hear a case brought by the KOMO Problem Solvers involving the public’s right to records.
In the simplest terms, the city of Seattle wants to keep its police dashcam videos under wraps for three years. However, KOMO News believes the public the public should have quicker access to the footage.
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U.S. Court of Appeals rejects CIA’s motion to squash lawsuit on Bay of Pigs history
From Global Research:
Washington, D.C. (Dec 7, 2012) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday rejected the CIA’s attempt to shortcut the National Security Archive’s lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the last still-secret history of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
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NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for December 7, 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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Public Records: $60,000 penalty puts access at risk
From The Press-Enterprise:
When the publisher of a small-town newspaper north of Sacramento made a public records request to learn more about spending done by school officials, he had no idea it would threaten the existence of the Sacramento Valley Mirror.
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Manville police sued by activist over access to investigation records
From MyCentralJersey.com:
MANVILLE (Nov 26, 2012) — What are they trying to hide?
That’s a question libertarian activist John Paff says he is trying to get answered through a lawsuit he filed last week in state Superior Court.
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College alarmed by animal rights ‘extremists’
From Courthouse News Service:
DETROIT (Nov 27, 2012) – Wayne State University is exempt from answering a FOIA request about its use of dogs in medical research, because the last time it did “animal rights extremists” threatened its researchers with “torture and death,” the university claims in court.
The university sued the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, in Wayne County Court.
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Tenn. Appeals Court to again hear arguments over private prison company, public records law
From The Republic:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The state Court of Appeals is again taking up a public records case involving a private prison company and a magazine that advocates for inmate rights.
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KY. appeal hearing granted in Leonard Lawson open records case
From Courier-Journal:
FRANKFORT, KY. (Nov 25, 2012) — The Kentucky Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Open Records Act appeal of road contractor Leonard Lawson, who wants a 1983 statement he made to investigators about bid rigging to remain secret.
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Death row inmate loses FOIA lawsuit against FBI
From Beaumontenterprise.com:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the FBI’s decision to redact information from records sought under the Freedom of Information Act by a Tennessee death row inmate.
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