Arkansas housing chief pleads not guilty to violating Freedom of Information Act
A housing agency's leader Little Rock, Arkansas has pleaded not guilty to a charge that he failed to comply with the Freedom of Information Act by withholding documents from an Arkansas newspaper. Metropolitan Housing Alliance Executive Director Rodney Forte entered the plea Thursday and is set to stand trial on the misdemeanor charge in January, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://bit.ly/1uFGKJA ) reported. read more ...
Senate panel plans vote on FOIA update
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on a bill to update the Freedom of Information Act as one of its first items once lawmakers return to Washington next week. The committee is planning to vote on the FOIA Improvement Act on the morning of Nov ...
Weston to charge fee for FOIA searches
People seeking public documents in Weston soon will have to pay a fee. A new ordinance allows the city to charge a fee for locating public documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act. The fee will be equivalent to the rate of pay of the employee who conducts the search and produces the documents. There also is a $1 charge per page for reproducing public documents. Continue>>> ======= ...
Public sure to learn one thing at meetings: They’re “tedious”
Open teacher labor talks will be required in all 179 Colorado school districts starting in January after 70 percent of voters approved Proposition 104, the only of five statewide ballot measures to pass last week ...
How Public Opinion Is Shaping Open Data in Washington, DC
When the District of Columbia first issued terms and conditions of use for its data, transparency advocates and civic hackers made their complaints known. Among the concerned parties was Josh Tauberer, founder of bill-tracking website GovTrack.us, ...
‘What’s the CIA doing on Amazon’s cloud?’ Open-government activists want to know
It looms over the road leading to Amazon's headquarters in Seattle. The 48-foot-wide billboard offers a query, but it's actually a challenge. "The $600 million question: What's the CIA doing on Amazon's cloud?" it asks. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos surely has noticed the massive sign, unless he arrives at work by drone. read more ...
Michigan Snyder Admin Destroys Emails Sought Through FOIA
LANSING – Progress Michigan learned today that the Michigan Department of Community Health has illegally purged department head communications from its databases. Three departments within Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration are using stal ...
Opinion: Sharyl Attkisson Is Just One More Journalist Who Says This Is ‘Worst’ White House For Press Freedom
Sharyl Attkisson isn't afraid to criticize the Obama administration, because she believes she's just saying what every journalist already knows. read more ...
P.E. Firms Fight Freedom Of Information Requests
Public pension funds have been a boon for private-equity firms, pouring billions into the industry in recent years. But some of the biggest p.e. firms are blanching at the transparency that such public investments can bring—and they are fightin ...
District Court Orders Release Of Another DOJ Drone-Killing Memo, Cites [REDACTED] In Support
New York's Southern District Court -- which has been hosting (along with the Second Circuit Appeals Court) the ACLU and New York Times' long-running, concurrent FOIA lawsuits against the government over its drone killing memos -- has reached a partial decision on some of the embattled documents. read more ...
