Food & Water Watch sues FDA for concealing records on arsenic in poultry feed
From eNews Park Forest: WASHINGTON--(ENEWSPF)--May 13 - Today the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch announced that it sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), saying that the agency has unlawfully ignored a Freedom of Info ...
Judge: Courts too deferential on classified information
From Politico: Federal courts are "far too deferential" to the executive branch's claims that information classified on national security grounds and shouldn't be released to the public, a prominent federal judge said Monday. [...] read more ...
Kansas takes closed approach to criminal records
From San Francisco Chronicle: TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Criminal records that are available to the public in almost every other state remain closed in Kansas without a judge's order, forcing residents in some cases to spend thousands of dollars to find out information readily accessible virtually anywhere else. read more ...
Editorial: A sorry effort to censor Pa.’s open-records czar
From Philly.com: Some Pennsylvania lawmakers are trying to prohibit the executive director of the state Office of Open Records from speaking publicly about active cases - essentially gagging an office designed to promote open government. A ...
Court Clerk’s office goes digital; records available online
From Claremore Progress: Rogers County Court Clerk Kim Henry implemented a digital record system May 7 and now the public will have the ability to view court documents online. [...] read more ...
Records in LSU presidential search not released
From SeattlePi.com: BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two Louisiana news organizations are asking a judge to punish LSU's Board of Supervisors for not releasing documents related the university's presidential search. Lori Mince is an attorney representing The Times-Picayune/NOLA Media Group and The Advocate newspaper. She filed a motion Friday asking Judge Janice Clark to find the supervisors in contempt of court ...
Records: Martin County dispatch supervisor admits to cheating on test for 11 staff members
From TCPalm: You’ve heard of cheating in the classroom but the Contact 5 Investigators have uncovered a cheating scandal in the Martin County 911 dispatch center. Through public records request, NewsChannel 5 obtained personnel records and internal affairs audio tapes outlining a test cheating case involving 911 dispatchers and deputies in the Martin County Sheriff’s Office ...
Open government organization provides grant to fight county petition
From Carroll County Times: A nonpartisan organization dedicated to the freedom of information has awarded the Carroll County Times a $12,500 grant to help cover litigation costs to fight a petition filed by the Carroll County Board of Commis ...
US Attorney blocks release of information on CIA driver licenses
From Northwest Public Radio: The US Attorney in Seattle has stepped in to block the release of information about a once-secret program under which fictitious driver licenses were issued by the state of Washington. In a letter to the state, ...
Public records advocate finds court trouble
From The Ledger: LAKELAND | Joel Chandler, a public records access advocate from Lakeland, is in hot water in a Ninth Judicial Circuit Court case. A judge has forwarded a document from the public records case to prosecutors for investigation ...
