Federal court judge rules against ports in suit over open meetings
Even as an Olympia open meetings advocate posted a win in federal court, the ports of Tacoma and Seattle once again will meet behind closed doors Wednesday (Dec. 3) to discuss their proposed operating alliance. U.S. District Judge James L. Robart r ...
LEAHY & CORNYN PRESS FOR CIA TO RETAIN EMAIL RECORDS
Responding to reports that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is seeking to adopt a new email retention policy that would allow the agency to purge thousands of emails from nearly all of its employees, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick L ...
IL Government Transparency Advocates Denounce State FOIA Proposal
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and several good government and media groups are speaking out against a measure that they say would "significantly weaken" the state's freedom of information laws. read more ...
Boulder will retain executive session records through 2022
Recordings of closed sessions of the Boulder City Council will be kept at least through the end of 2022, five years after that executive session authority expires ...
Records show several excessive-force cases in metro Denver jails
The Jefferson County sheriff rejected an open-records request from The Post seeking to determine how the officers were disciplined. He cited confidentiality rules in personnel matters — even though sheriffs in other jurisdictions routinely release them to the public ...
Suit seeks information about disabled abuse
An advocate for the disabled has sued the Cuomo administration for detailed disclosures about crimes against disabled individuals in state care and is questioning why thousands of calls to the state's abuse hotline didn't lead to investigations. read more ...
Opinion: An open letter to Larimer County Clerk & Recorder Angela Myers
After researching state election statutes and the Secretary of State’s Election Rules, it turns out that I was completely correct and your office and your employees were completely incorrect. The Secretary of State’s Elections Rules contain no requirements or mention of press coverage of the voting process ...
Judge Orders DOD to Release Information on Contracting Program Under Fire
The Department of Defense has until Wednesday under a federal court order to produce information on a contracting program that critics say has been harmful to small businesses while benefitting large defense firms. read more ...
Opinion: Attack on the Freedom of Information Act
In a state where four of the last seven governors have been convicted of things such as corruption, bribery and fraud, you'd think the general consensus would always be: The more transparent your government is, the better off we'll all be. But no. read more ...
Ann Arbor City Council to address FOIA revisions
At its regularly scheduled Monday meeting, the Ann Arbor City Council will consider resolutions regarding city liquor licenses, extensions of wastewater contracts with Scio Township and updates to the city’s document policies under Freedom of I ...
