Judge dismisses lawsuit by Elbert County resident who claimed harassment over his CORA requests
From The Denver Post: Don Pippin's battle against the Elbert County commissioners appears to be over. A U.S. District judge last week tossed a lawsuit against the Elbert County Commissioners filed by Pippin, who claimed he was harassed over his constant open records requests. The latest court actions ends a two-year battle between Pippin and the commissioners that saw Elbert County seek a restraining order against Pippin. The order was eventually tossed out and Pippin sued the board in U.S. District Court in Denver. Pippin said the board called him a "homegrown terrorist" after Pippin was seen taking pictures of ...
The drive to open data provides opportunities for tech community
The open source movement can trace its beginnings to a famous strategy session held in Palo Alto, CA in February 1998, where the term "open source" was coined. That meeting led to the Open Source Definition, to advocacy for the use of open source software, and, fairly quickly, to worldwide recognition of open source principles. read more ...
Heed county’s sham request: broaden open government
A call to open more state lawmaking to view won near-unanimous Miami-Dade commission approval last week. It was so on target that you’d wish they meant it. Unfortunately, it was all a clumsy swat at Tallahassee by commissioners who feel burde ...
NSA denies all requests for personal information
WASHINGTON — Since last year’s revelations about the National Security Agency’s massive communications data dragnets, the spy agency has been inundated with requests from Americans and others wanting to know if it has files on them ...
EPA Fraudster’s Records Sought in FOIA Request
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More Transparency on Agenda for NYPD and New York City Council
While there was a lot of hype about a report that the NYPD is testing Google Glass, in the short-term a policy-shift toward more accessible NYPD data has the potential to be more consequential for New Yorkers at large. read more ...
Latin leaders call for transparency
Leaders of Latin America have called for more transparency in governments, as it is the key to building trust between the state and its citizens. In a session moderated by Sultan Bin Saaed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, representatives of L ...
Magazines sue Colorado over marijuana advertising restrictions
From The Denver Post: The publisher of marijuana magazine High Times has sued the state of Colorado in federal court over the state's rules preventing recreational cannabis businesses from advertising in most publications. High Times, along with local weekly magazine Westword, filed the lawsuit on Monday. It marks the first time anyone has challenged the restrictions in court. The rules allow recreational marijuana businesses to advertise only in publications that are adult-oriented. According to the state's rules, recreational marijuana stores can advertise only in a publication that "has reliable evidence that no more than 30 percent of the publication's readership ...
Time for Legislature to live by open government rules
With policy cutoff behind us, the list of living and walking dead bills (nothing is really dead till sine die) is being compiled. Among the proposals that didn’t even receive a hearing, however, is a bill based on WPC’s recommendation for ...
