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• Kansas news digest

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 475
  News from alternative media around Kansas for November 16, 2009. 2010 Commission advocates tax hikes and wants more K-12 funding (Kansas Liberty) “The 2010 Commission, which monitors school finance, is recommending that Gov. Mark Parkinson and the Kansas Legislature raise taxes to maintain funding for K-12 ...
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• TDCJ on recording death row visits: Policy? What policy?

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 574
  Yesterday I got back a response to my public information act request to TDCJ (following another one, under separate cover, from the Office of Inspector General), stating that, "Pursuant to a diligent search of agency records, we have determined that no responsive information is maintained by the TDCJ in regard to ...
  1 day ago

• Appleseed rightly sues to make police use-of-force policies public

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 574
  Im pleased to learn that Texas Appleseed has filed suit challenging the Texas Attorney Generals rulings on keeping use of force policies closed for police stationed at schools. (Id encouraged Appleseed to go to court over this in a prior blog post .) Reports the San Antonio Express News : Texas Appleseed, which ...
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• An update on the Milwaukee-area recall groups

  
  Blogging Blue — Authority: 556
  I’ve written a little about the news that two groups have formed to recall Milwaukee County Supervisors Pat Jursik and Theo Lipscomb , and in the interest of transparency, here’s copies of the registration documents filed by each group: The “Glendale Residents for Honest Representation” group was ...
  3 days ago

• On Being Open (The Executive Order)

  
  Mediaverse — Authority: 121
  One day, Nov. 10, 2009 might be viewed as a hallmark day for open records --not just in Memphis, but in Tennessee. Well, thats if other cities follow the lead that Mayor A C Wharton Jr. set Tuesday with the signing of Executive Order No. 01-2009 , which establishes a new bar for transparency in local government. ...
  5 days ago

• Defiant John Bradley rebuffed on secrecy pleas

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 574
  Blogs play different roles in different types of news stories. Frequently Grits covers topics that receive very little attention from the press, in which case simply reporting what goes on provides a meaningful service. But some stories, like Gov. Rick Perrys replacement of the Texas Forensic Science Commission ...
  5 days ago

• New Jersey Use-of-Force Reports are Public Records

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 132
  A New Jersey appeals court panel held that police use-of-force reports are public records, upholding a 2008 Superior Court ruling that West Milford must turn over the reports to Martin OShea, an open-records activist.  The town sought exemption for the records under New Jerseys Public Records Act as "criminal ...
  5 days ago

• WI: State Supreme Court hears teacher e-mail case

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 149
  Adam Wise reports: After more than two years of debate, the fate of an open records request involving Wisconsin Rapids teacher e-mail messages now rests with the state’s highest court. Seven State Supreme Court justices spent more than an hour Tuesday morning questioning an attorney representing the Wisconsin ...
  5 days ago

• You can now follow WikiFOIA on Twitter

  
  Open Records — Authority: 418
  Connect to WikiFOIA’s twitter account here. Thanks to Josh for setting this up. One story Josh is following today…and you can, too, because it is being broadcast live today …is a hearing in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on the question of whether private e-mails of teachers ought to be ...
  6 days ago

• Landmark Payout in Washington State for Public Records Law Violations

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 132
  The Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) will pay $525,000 to three girls abused by their foster father for wrongfully withholding public records from them.  The payout stems from a lawsuit filed by three girls who endured years of abuse at the hands of their foster father, despite complaints ...
  1 week ago

• Adoption BEwareness Month Part II

  
  73adoptee - adoption search, reunion and reform — Authority: 99
  Its that time of year again , when I cant open a paper or glance at a web site without being innundated by how WONDERFUL adoption is and isnt it too bad we dont have more of it. Sigh. Forget the rainbows and fluffy animals. Others have mentioned this, and I believe also, that it would be far more effective ...
  1 week ago

• State Task Force Recommends Office of Open Records for Washington

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 132
  A task force created by Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna and Democratic state Auditor Brian Sonntag unanimously recommended the Washington Legislature create a new Office of Open Records to handle public records disputes out of court. The state office would be modeled after the offices created in Pennsylvania ...
  1 week ago

• City of Wichita and the Kansas Open Records Act

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 475
  At a meeting of the Wichita City Council , it becomes clear that either the city doesn’t understand the meaning of the Kansas Open Records Act , or it has no intention of following it.
  1 week ago

• Wichita’s open records policy is contrary to the interests of citizens

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 475
  Remarks to be delivered to the November 3, 2009 meeting of the Wichita city council. The Kansas Open Records Act (KORA), in KSA 45-216 (a) states: “It is declared to be the public policy of the state that public records shall be open for inspection by any person unless otherwise provided by this act, and this ...
  1 week ago

• Grits for Breakfast: Texas AG Greg Abbott ‘thwarting transparency’

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 557
  One of our favorite blogs, the law-related site Grits for Breakfast, is putting a whipping on Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott for not making public records public in cases like school districts’ police forces’ use-of-force policies and the Cameron Todd Willingham execution case: There’s just no excuse for ...
  2 weeks ago

• AG thwarting transparency on justice matters

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 574
  Im incredibly disappointed at recent trends developing over at the Texas Attorney Generals Open Records division. For the first several years after Greg Abbott became Texas AG, he was a staunch open government advocate - much better, frankly, than either John Cornyn or Dan Morales before him. Lately though, on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kansas News Digest

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 475
  News from alternative media around Kansas for November 2, 2009. Kansas House leaders question secretary of commerce’s departure to Missouri (Kansas Liberty) “The Republican leadership of the Kansas House is questioning the timing of former Kansas Secretary of Commerce David Kerr’s resignation to take a job ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three Decades after Adoption, DNA reveals painful Truth

  
  "Neither Here Nor There..." — Authority: 123
  Three decades after adoption, DNA test reveals painful truthBy Frank D. RoylanceBaltimore Sun reporterOctober 12, 2009 For Cockeysville businessman Ron Ryba, the long walk from the parking lot to the stadium in Philadelphia was a 29-year trail of memories.He had come to meet the son he and his high school sweetheart ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Picture Paints a Thousand Words

  
  "Neither Here Nor There..." — Authority: 123
  Its definitely a three-fold tie. My most telling "adoption" photos, that is. These pictures may not seem to anyone else to be adoption-related. But to me they are intricately woven together with adoption. Because I am. My entire life, experience, being, emotions, connections, and decisions are all intricately, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chronicle Sues Governor

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  " Chronicle sues Perry over clemency report ," is the title of R.G. Ratcliffes report in todays Houston Chronicle. TheHouston Chronicle and Hearst Newspapers LLC are suing Gov. Rick Perryin an effort to force the release of a clemency report Perry receivedbefore denying a stay of execution to Cameron Todd ...
  2 weeks ago

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