Press attorney contests DOJ argument to keep records confidential
From Times-News: GRAHAM — An attorney representing the Alamance News has filed a motion in response to the U.S Department of Justice’s argument against providing documents covered by a joint confidentiality and protective order in its lawsuit against Sheriff Terry Johnson. read more ...
Penn State, other state-related schools say Pa. shouldn’t alter status under Right-to-Know Law
From The Republic: HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Lawyers for Penn State and Pennsylvania's three other "state-related" universities said Monday they should not be fully covered by the state Right-to-Know Law, as lawmakers revisited a previously settled question reignited by the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case. The attorneys said during a four-hour Capitol hearing on proposed changes to the state's main open-records law that it should not apply to them as it does to the 14 state-owned schools in the State System of Higher Education. read more ...
Requests from inmates overwhelm Pa. open records system
From NewsWorks.org: Proposed revisions to Pennsylvania's open records law appear to require more fine-tuning as lawmakers attempt to address a surging number of requests from prison inmates. State prisoners are among the most frequent filers when ...
Pittsgrove acting clerk violated New Jersey Open Public Records Act, state officials rule
From NJ.com: PITTSGROVE TWP. — The acting township clerk violated a law by failing to provide requested documents to a resident under the Open Public Records Act, according to state officials. Steve Wymbs was found to be in violation, according to the New Jersey Government Records Council, after he was unable to locate and produce less than 3 percent of the total requested documents from resident Norman Lenchitz. read more ...
Judge orders city to release police internal affairs files
From WICS.com: A judge has ruled in favor of ABC Newschannel 20 and other media outlets in a Freedom of Information Act case surrounding some Springfield Police internal affairs files. [...] The city is ordered to release the documents ABC Newscha ...
EPIC FOIA fails to get secret presidential cybersecurity order
From McClatchyDC: A secret presidential directive on cybersecurity is going to stay secret, despite the best FOIA-filing efforts of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. In a decision issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell reject ...
Pension probe: Does the public have a right to know, or will New Jersey authorities keep lieutenant governor’s secrets forever?
From Watchdog.org: Should New Jersey officials be allowed to keep forever secret a criminal investigation on alleged corruption involving a prominent elected official? Or does the public have a right to know what the state found – and how authorities handled a probe rife with conflicts of interest? read more ...
Sullivan negotiations with teacher groups held without notice, behind closed doors
From Kingsport Times News: BLOUNTVILLE — Collaborative conferencing negotiations among the Sullivan County school system and two teacher groups were held behind closed doors with no public notice last month. Two groups say that violates Tennessee’s open meetings law, called the “Sunshine Law,” although Director of Schools Jubal Yennie said the public does not have the explicit right to be present for collaborative conferencing. read more ...
John Ramsey: Release entire grand jury record, not just indictment, in JonBenet case
From the (Boulder) Daily Camera: John Ramsey has objected to Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett submitting any secret grand-jury indictment in his daughter's case to a judge to review and release. In a letter to Garnett dated Sunday on behalf of Ramsey, his attorneys Harold Haddon and Bryan Morgan objected to the release of any indictment without the release of the entire grand jury record. "Public release of the allegations of an unprosecuted indictment only serves to further defame (John Ramsey) and his late wife Patricia," the letter reads. "Mr. Ramsey will have no access to whatever evidence the prosecutors ...
NMFOG: New Mexico Attorney General and Human Services Department release heavily redacted 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), the Attorney General of New Mexico and the New Mexico Human Services Depart ...
