CIA refuses to acknowledge drone targeted killings
From Wired: Months after a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit seeking Central Intelligence Agency documents outlining the government’s drone targeted killing program, the President Barack Obama administration is again claiming tha ...
EPA may have tried to evade FOIA request, judge says
From WashingtonPost.com: A federal judge said Wednesday that the Environmental Protection Agency may have tried to evade a Freedom of Information Act request and added that “numerous inconsistencies” in the agency’s court fili ...
CIA memo confirms snooping file on Noam Chomsky
From journalgazette.net: For years, the Central Intelligence Agency denied it had a secret file on MIT professor and famed dissident Noam Chomsky. But a new government disclosure obtained by FP reveals for the first time that the agency did in ...
Ruling requires Champaign to turn over records, denies lawyer pay
From News-Gazette.com: An Illinois appellate court has sided with The News-Gazette and ruled that the city of Champaign turn over to reporter Patrick Wade copies of electronic communications sent and received by city council members during council meetings and study sessions in May, June and July 2011. But the same three-member court overturned a ruling by Sangamon County Judge John Schmidt that The News-Gazette's attorney was entitled to $7,500 in attorney fees and costs from the city. [...] read more ...
Super. of Public Instruction, Wyoming gov. in records request struggle
From Wyoming Tribune Eagle Online: Superintendent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill and the governor's office remain deadlocked in a dispute over the release of public records. Gov. Matt Mead said again on Monday that his office will not be able to meet Hill’s request that thousands of emails from his staff be released by next week. read more ...
Appeals court finds that Oregon’s online repository of court files is a public record
From Daily Journal: The state online repository of court files is a public record, the Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled, overturning a lower-court judgment that put the state in the awkward position of arguing that its own online registry was ...
Indiana’s Open Records Law gets a workout
From WIBC Indianapolis: The current open records law, the Access to Public Records Act (APRA), has been in place for "at least the last couple decades" according to Julia Vaughn, policy director for the open government advocacy group Common Cause Indiana. "Those of us who have always participated with it in place tend to forget that there was a time when people were not allowed into hearings, and when people were not allowed access to government documents," said Vaughn. read more ...
Transparency officers named for Iowa universities
From KCAU-TV.com: Iowa's three public universities are naming new transparency officers to oversee public records and public hearings. The Iowa Board of Regents said Monday the transparency officers have been appointed in response to recommendations approved last week to improve responses to public records requests and access to information. They are University of Iowa vice president Mark Braun, Iowa State University assistant to the president Shirley Knipfel, and University of Northern Iowa controller Gary Shontz. read more ...
Housing agency settles challenge to ‘sham entity’
From Seattle Times: The King County Housing Authority says it got bad legal advice when it held unannounced meetings of a nonprofit it formed in 2009. The housing authority set up the nonprofit, Moving King County Residents Forward, as a sepa ...
Understanding open public records requests in Beatrice, Nebraska
From Beatrice Daily Sun: The Nebraska Legislature recently passed LB363 amending the Nebraska Statutes relating to public records. With this passage the Beatrice City Council adopted a Resolution at their August 5th regular meeting to update th ...
