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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “open records”

• Government agencies nearly double their attempts to withhold records: Report

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 522
  From the Corpus Christi Caller-Times‘ Sara Foley:CORPUS CHRISTI — Requests that the Texas attorney general withhold information requested by the public increased 88 percent in five years, according to a Caller-Times analysis of state records.It’s a trend that open-government advocates say could indicate an abuse ...
  2 days ago

• Bateman Bill Giving Public Access to School Audits Clears Senate

  
  New Jersey Senate Republicans — Authority: 126
  Senator Christopher (Kip) Bateman, R-District 16, said he is pleased that the Senate unanimously passed his legislation requiring that state agencies release any report resulting from a school district audit with 30 days of completion. “When taxpayers pay for a study or an audit, they should have the right to see ...
  4 days ago

• WebLink Wonderland

  
  Laserfiche News Portal — Authority: 122
  Mountains are for snow, not paper, in Vail, CO
  5 days ago

• Harris District Clerk lets public search cases by attorney name

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 520
  Mark Bennett at Defending People directs readers to new online tools making it easy to identify what cases an individual attorney has worked on in Harris County. Basically you can find the lawyers bar card number at the State Bar of Texas website, then use this search function from the Harris County District ...
  5 days ago

• Oklahoma Attorney General Opinion Leaves Agencies with Discretion to Release Employees Birth Dates

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 129
  Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson has released an opinion that leaves it to government agencies to decide whether to release public employees birth dates. The opinion states government agencies have the discretion to determine whether the release of an employees birth date falls within the exemption to the ...
  6 days ago

• Examining the Breadth of Sunshine in the Sunshine State

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 129
  A Florida representative has asked the state attorney general to determine if a regional economic development organization is subject to the states open records and meeting laws. Floridas Great Northwest, an economic development group designed to push workforce development in 16 northwest Florida counties, was not ...
  6 days ago

• Invitation to a free half day adoption film festival for Maines 1st Anniversary

  
  Ungrateful Little Bastard — Authority: 103
  Expanding a bit on a previous post.... Host :           OBC for ME      Location :  The Maine Studios                      235 Presumpscot Street                      Portland, ME 04103 When :        Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 12:00 Noon ...
  6 days ago

• Reminder: Open Records Request Class Tomorrow!

  
  Jon Caldara — Authority: 122
  Want to learn more about the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) and how you can use it to obtain information bureaucrats don’t want you to see? TOMORROW at 2pm, we will be holding a FREE how-to CORA session here at our office in Golden! That’s right, you heard correctly. A FREE class on open records ...
  6 days ago

• The Corruption of Charlie Rangel and John Murtha

  
  The Conservative Reform Network Blog — Authority: 142
  R ep. Charlie Rangel from New York is eclipsing John Murtha with his scandals. These Democrats have been in power too long and the power has corrupted them. The scandals are growing and support for these two very long time incumbents is waning. Money in Politics News: October 15, 2009 Charles Rangel’s Support ...
  6 days ago

• So You Wanna Be a Citizen Journalist?

  
  Jon Caldara — Authority: 122
  With the crumbling print media, radio, and television industries, more and more folks are getting their news from Al Gore’s greatest invention since global warming. I for one spend more time on the Internet than I do watching TV, listening to talk radio, or reading much of anything — and it’s not just because ...
  1 week ago

• Republican John Kennedy for Lt. Governor: The Voice of the Tax Producer & Small Busines

  
  The Conservative Reform Network Blog — Authority: 142
   Republican John Kennedy for Lt. Gov!   In my opinion, Pennsylvania  needs someone making the case for the Tax Producers.  T he Tax Payers who build businesses, innovative businesses, people which employ and produce, particularly, small businesses. The Lt. Gov. presides over the Senate and has an office, ...
  1 week ago

• More on Todd Willingham

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 509
  Todays Houston Chronicle carries the latest column by Rick Casey, " Can e-mail be saved by deleting it? " Acouple of weeks ago I sent a request to the Texas Forensic Commissionunder the Public Information Act for any documents or e-mails regardingtwo new policies put into place by the commissions controversial ...
  1 week ago

• Fort Worth refuses to release Rainbow Lounge names that have already been released

  
  Instant Tea — Authority: 601
  The city of Fort Worth is seeking to withhold the names of witnesses who were present during the Rainbow Lounge raid, arguing that releasing the names would violate the witnesses’ privacy and cause people to speculate about their sexual orientation, The Star-Telegram reports here . As a result, many of the ...
  1 week ago

• Adoptee Voices Needed, Plus More On ABCs Find My Family

  
  73adoptee - adoption search, reunion and reform — Authority: 401
  There is plenty of discussion going on in various media circles about adoptee rights, so be sure to add your two cents. Also some good discussion going on out there about ABCs new Find My Family show, which I mentioned in my previous entry . I still havent decided if its good PR or exploitation, but it really ...
  1 week ago

• Progress in Wichita?

  
  Open Records — Authority: 409
  Wichita’s vice-mayor, Jim Skelton, has weighed in on the side of my pal Bob Weeks. Weeks has requested documents from the Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau. That agency has denied his requests. At issue is whether the agency should be considered public from the POV of the Kansas Sunshine Laws. The ...
  1 week ago

• Pennsylvania Enjoys Signal Improvement on its Right-to-Know Law Anniversary

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 129
  As the one-year anniversary of Pennsylvanias Right-to-Know Law approaches, open records advocates are hailing the improvements the Commonwealth has made under the new law.The new law provides a first-stage appeal with the taxpayer-funded open records office, whose lawyers issue binding opinions. It also established ...
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• Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau should follow Kansas Open Records Act

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 427
  Remarks to be delivered to the December 1, 2009 meeting of the Wichita City Council. Mr. Mayor, members of the council, I’m recommending that the city not renew its contract with the Go Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau until that organization decides to follow the Kansas Open Records Act . Recently I ...
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• Using Public Documents For Competitive Intelligence

  
  The Reciprocal Consulting Blog — Authority: 128
  One often overlooked source of competitive intelligence is public information documents. These are documents that are a matter of public record and you’ll often be surprised at what you can find in those places. Here’s an example: (Source) We once found sales and profit numbers for a large privately held ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chairman of Texas forensic science panel oversteps his authority

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 520
  The title of this post is the headline of a Fort Worth Star Telegram editorial today chastising Williamson County DA and Forensic Science Commission Chairman John Bradley for an array of recent moves aimed at clouding the commissions work in secrecy. Bradley wants to make meetings closed, records secret, and now hes ...
  2 weeks ago

• NAVTEQ Rejects County’s GIS Policy

  
  GeoData Policy — Authority: 103
  GIS Policy Now in QuestionBy SAM SMITHSource: SaukValley.com     Date: November 12, 2009MORRISON – Whiteside County may have to change the way it does business with companies seeking access to its online storehouse of real estate information. Chicago-based NAVTEQ, a company agreeing to pay for the county’s ...
  2 weeks ago

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