AG says interviewed applicants are public record
February 27, 2009: "The University of Nebraska must make public the records of job applicants who are screened in face-to-face meetings, the state's attorney general said in an 2004 opinion.
Attorney General Jon Bruning ordered the University of Nebraska, a public university, to disclose the names of eight candidates it interviewed for the school's presidency. Within hours, university officials complied with the order, which had been requested by the Omaha World-Herald , the Lincoln Journal Star and The Associated Press.
The university had previously made public the records of its four finalists for the presidency, but refused to release information pertaining to four other candidates who were interviewed by its search committee but not officially named "finalists" for the job." Read the full article here.
Neb. high court to decide if burial records public
February 26, 2009: "The Nebraska Supreme Court will determine whether people buried in a former psychiatric hospital cemetery took their right to privacy to the grave with them.
The Adams County Historical Society wants names of the 957 people buried in the Hastings Regional Center cemetery between 1909 and 1957 made public.
The state has maintained that the federal medical privacy law prohibits the release of the names." Read the full article here.
AP files brief in Neb. cemetery case
January 8, 2009: "The Associated Press has joined several media associations in filing a "friend of the court" brief supporting a Nebraska historical society's fight to obtain the names of 957 people buried in a former psychiatric hospital cemetery.
A 2007 lawsuit filed by the Adams County Historical Society contends that Hastings Regional Center's burial logs are public records and should be available for viewing." Read the full article here.
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