April 2009 archive
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- Chafin examines FOIA response
- Concealed Guns, Not Records
- Judgment could cause Wash town's bankruptcy
- Council approves ordinance to increase 'transparency'
- King Co. to pay blogger $225K for witholding docs
- Suit Prompts Mason County to Examine Public Records Procedure
- Mason County case good for records access
- Seattle City Council is committed to open government
- Port Angeles proposal on records access postponed
- Do you know what your legislator is doing?
- Mason County must pay $145,000 in records dispute
- Review date set for FOIA case
- FOIA covers judicial salaries, council says
- Web site allows citizens to see restaurant inspection results
- School employees bill would put records back in shadows
- Don't block access to public information
- Texas judges can keep information private
- Houston Mayor Bill White keeps calendar, correspondence with developer hidden from public view
- Nederland ISD, bond opponents already at odds over getting information
- EDITORIAL: Keep information available to public
- Shapleigh's open records lawsuit against the TCEQ
- Bill seeks to pull birth dates from public records
- The good, the bad and the ugly 04-10-09
- Beaumont ISD fails to release Ozen basketball applicant list
- Editorial: Making birth dates secret is bad law
- Bid to open co-ops' doors gets early OK
- Keep gun permit information open
- Judge To Examine Anderson Legal Billings To East Ridge
- Meeting in online forums? Officials should stick to in-person sessions
- Future of state open records law uncertain
- Hearing office handles 7 public records cases
- Agency must show tax-refund permits
- University openness lacks consistency
- Volante tests campus transparency
- Open records law helps brighten South Dakota
- Rec Commission Continues to Evade Public Disclosure
- School’s legal bills under wraps
- New law doesn't prompt more requests
- Pa. backs New Era on autopsy reports
- Pennsylvania's open records law sets barriers
- Editorial: A foot in the door
- Newspaper wins partial victory
- County appeals man’s access to e-mails
- Posting only to Web limits access to local information
- Some Officials Not Following Open Records Law
- Our view: Records law applies to all levels of government
- DEP challenges records ruling
- Open records office rules college must disclose salaries
- Most police records now available for $1
- Pennsylvania Has First Test Over Access to Records
- School district splits legal hairs on Open Records
- Newspaper group hits open-records office on ruling
- Lawmakers back closing of handgun records
- Students seek transparency in UOSA
- Tulsa County clerk removes online copy fee
- Ohio Supreme Court disserves the public in yet another records ruling -- editorial
- Court: Ohio governor largely followed records law
- Ohio Supreme Court ruling strikes a blow against open records
- Mayoral recall group sues to get public records
- Strickland releases school-funding records
- Akron swamped with public record requests
- Rep. Morgan takes public records case against Strickland to Supreme Court
- ND House defeats bill to weaken open records law
- Public Records in North Carolina
- Bill would require attorneys fees after public record lawsuit wins
- N.C. bill would award legal fees in records lawsuits
- New Hanover county, Star-News go to court over county layoff records
- What's the true price of public records?
- Web site opens window on NC government
- EDITORIAL: State Web site very helpful
- Ms. Barnette's poor excuse
- Top 50 earners in Clarkstown work for police
- Full-time pension, part-time hours for 5 local town attorneys?
- City firefighters blast mayor for listing salaries on Web site
- 'Other pay' drives up Yorktown wages
- Court rules Bedford district's secrecy valid
- Canandaigua Town Board to vote on information policy change
- School system keeps us in dark - parents
- Albuquerque newspaper sues agency over public records
- N.M. governor signs bill to make government agencies recognize e-mail records requests
- E-mail OK in seeking public records under new law
- Court rules for county clerk in records case
- Firm wins fight for real estate data
- Transaction documents to be released to public
- Ocean City weighs hourly fee for researching records
- GOP's Right to Know request may highlight law's gray areas
- Experts: Right to Know law protects lawmakers' e-mail
- N.H. lawmakers reject Right to Know requests
- In search of open records at the county building
- The public’s right to know
- Bill would restrict public access to some 'U' info
- Editorial: City needs to resolve public use of e-mails
- Genesee County school boards, superintendents rack up $370,000 in travel expenses
- Former library board member sues officials
- Clerk, attorney at odds over FOIA request
- Lawmaker wants to expand 'Sunshine' laws
- Resident requests preschool financial records
- Walsh fiasco shows value of public records law
- Bill would stop public disclosure of state workers' salaries
- Public Salaries Website Causes Privacy Dispute
- Bill hides names from list of state worker salaries
- Jindal administration scuttles one public records bill, says it backs another
- View from elsewhere: On governor's records
- Judge blocks release of council e-mail
- Our Views: We support records bill
- Pineville loses latest round in public records case
- E-Transparency Bill Passes Council
- Local businessman challenges USD 259 bond award
- Crop groups seek records investigation
- Ag groups seek query of open records, meetings law violations
- Confusion over whether marriage license applications are a public record
- Pared-down open records bill passes House
- Roughwood resident seeks public records
- Changes to 'sunshine' law debated
- Ind. public access penalty bill likely dead
- Official: East Chicago violated records law
- Indiana bill to impose access penalties in jeopardy
- Open records law needs changes
- Our Opinion: Quinn should lean on ISP to release records
- Illinois ethics reform: Panel releases report of recommendation
- Monken, governor’s office review rejected FOIA request
- Liberty man wins Sunshine Award
- Proof is in the pay hikes
- Lawsuit develops in records fight
- Bill to keep police-citizen e-mail lists private
- Editorial: Good news, bad news on Open Records Act
- Jacksonville city employees' overtime millions over limit
- Florida's Public Records Law: An Unmistakable Message
- Hallandale fights blogger seeking mayor's e-mail list
- School Board's Lawyer Faces Charges
- Judge rules Val-P violated public records law
- Records Bill Closer To Passage
- Mayor applauds efforts of Ethics Commission
- HARTFORD: Council Backs FOI Board
- HARTFORD: Commission Orders City To Surrender Records
- Hartford's Fighting Freedom Of Information Cases Has Cost More Than $125,000
- Public's Right To Know Once Again At Stake
- Battling FOI: Hartford Mayor's Secrecy Is Expensive
- Staff Safety Goal Of Bill
- Councilman charges mayor with FOI breach
- Stratford councilman files FOI for data
- Right to know vs. victim rights
- Texas Councilman Arrested for Opposing Red Light Cameras
- Council member named in Shelby County clerk's office arrests
- ‘Green’ credits prove spendy
- Litigation continues over local request for public records from SRP
- Bill merges records, technology
- Opinions vary on availability of concealed-carry list
- Maricopa Co.: Arpaio's Request To Cost $1M
- Senate approves concealed carry bill
- Center for Biological Diversity sues Prescott over public records
- Judge asks to review contested SRP documents in public records case
- Transparency the buzz at Sacramento State
- Bill lets us track government money
- Lawsuit alleging Santa Clara county overcharging for copies
- Bill to put state’s checkbook on Web advances
- California education agencies speak out
- Officials spar over lack of airport appointments
- Note to airport commissioners: FOIA is the law
- Records show racist e-mails, office affair
- Judge: Weyauwega-Fremont Board of Education meeting broke open meetings law
- College reporters want records ruling from Wis. AG
- State Supreme Court hears arguments on open records
- Editorial: State lags on open records access
- Attorneys in open records battle state case to Supreme Court
- WI Court Asked to Rule on Release of E-Mails
- Casper judge sides with paper in records case
- Don't further weaken access bill
- New gun permit legislation may soon protect permit holders information
- Obama receives an A for FOIA during first 100 days
- Former Florida Speaker of the House indicted
- Former NY Liberal Party chairman indicted
- IL Governor Quinn launches website to crack down on government corruption
- South Carolina sees first two cities pledge financial transparency
- Former Illinois Governor Blagojevich indicted on 16 felony counts
- Colorado government corruption
- California government corruption
- Arkansas government corruption
- Arizona government corruption
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