Voluntown, Connecticut

From Sunshine Review

Voluntown is a town in Connecticut. In October 2008, the town announced that rather than comply with a new requirement of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act to post minutes on Town websites within seven days of a town meeting, it would pull down its website.^[1],^[2] Visitors to the website will now find two red circles with slashes across them - the universal sign for “No”, and the statement ”The town has no IT department, and complying with the bill will put a burden on each board in town”. ^[3]

[edit] References

1. ↑ Connecticut local politics, "Town Web Sites Going Offline In Response to New FOIA Minutes Posting Requirement", October 2008
2. ↑ Hartford Courant, "Under New Law Towns Forced To Shut Down Websites", October 3, 2008
3. ↑ Towns seek relief from state Web site rule, The Day, January 29, 2009

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