Tensions between student privacy and excessive secrecy may be heating up
From NFOIC: COLUMBIA, Mo -- Will there be an onslaught of new state legislation that aims to moot the impact of a relaxed Department of Education regulation that gives educational researchers access to data to track individual students’ p ...
Judge says Homeland Security cannot keep wireless shutdown protocols secret
From The Washington Free Beacon: A court has ruled that the Department of Homeland Security must release its protocols for a shut down of wireless systems, rejecting claims that the criteria for triggering a wireless system shutdown are exempt. Rea ...
Newspaper goes to court over reporter’s notes
From ABC News: The Washington Examiner has asked a federal judge to force the Coast Guard to return any documents and copies of records it seized from a reporter while searching her home last summer as part of a gun investigation involving her ...
More Accountability, transparency regarding federal spending?
From Project on Government Oversight: The House has passed the DATA Act – the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act – in a near-unanimous bipartisan vote. Read more: http://bit.ly/1iDRH6d ...
Idahoans for Openness in Government objects to closed Twin Falls meetings
From MagicValley.com: TWIN FALLS • Idahoans for Openness in Government filed a complaint against the city of Twin Falls Tuesday, claiming city officials have repeatedly violated the state’s open meeting law. The complaint stems from the city’s use of closed subcommittees. The panels are made up of fewer than four City Council members, plus city staff and citizens. The groups make recommendations on who should fill open city positions and on city finances, for example. read more ...
New Mexico judge to review behavioral Health Audit
Press release from The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government: Albuquerque - In response to a lawsuit filed by The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government (NMFOG), District Court Judge Sarah Singleton has decided she will review the behaviora ...
Newspaper goes to fed court over reporter’s notes
From The Washington Post: WASHINGTON — A Washington newspaper has asked a federal judge to force the Coast Guard to return any documents and copies of records it seized from a reporter while searching her home last summer as part of a gun ...
Press freedom in the eastern partnership countries
From The Sacramento Bee: STRASBOURG, November 21, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- At a seminar on press freedom organised in the European Parliament in Strasbourg by the Brussels based Foundation for Democracy and Governance, fears were expressed of a cra ...
Opinion: The open government illusion
From Governing: The easier it is for us to find important information about cities, counties and states, the better we’re able to report on topics of interest to our readers. But transparency isn’t just about us. It can help citizen organizations, good government bodies, advocacy groups, the press at large and even the general public. What’s more, accessible information makes it easier for legislators and city council members to drill down to the facts, creating more capacity for informed decision-making. read more ...
FOIA suit ends happily for immigration lawyer
From Courthouse News Service: SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Immigration officials will no longer fight a lawyer who claimed that quality representation hinged on accessing the notes asylum officers took on his clients. read more ...
