Timely open access bill in state legislature honors President’s Day
From Sunshine Review
February 17, 2009
[edit] Timely open access bill in state legislature honors President’s Day
"Indiana SB 0232 is currently up for consideration in the legislature. It is a very important and timely piece of legislation for Morgan County. SB 232 proposes to toughen laws which provide for more open access to Government on both the state and local levels by actually fining those agencies or their individual agencies for failure to comply with the law.
Another change proposed by the bill is that members of the public could ask to be put on the yearly contact list for 48-hour advance notification of any governmental agency board meetings. Currently, only news organization have this opportunity.
The current laws fall short by allowing some who are denied public records to take an agency or individual to court, but not providing for a fine for refusing to release records that are supposed to be open."
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