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From the Mail Tribune:
SALEM — A bill that would close off the records of those who hold concealed handgun licenses in Oregon easily passed the House, but its future in the Senate is, again, questionable.
It's the fourth time the House has passed such a bill, but each time the bill died in the Senate in the 2009 and 2011 sessions.
Opinion from The Times Leader:
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The key: Strip away the secrecy of those involved, and their bad behavior ends.
That same notion applies on a much larger and more consequential level in Pennsylvania, where state law allows people – often with the help of the startup state Office of Open Records – to sleuth through public information about state and county governments, local school boards and other taxpayer-funded bodies.
From The Wichita Eagle:
WICHITA — Go Wichita, the convention and visitors’ bureau, will receive its annual budget of more than $2 million in public funds amid concerns that it does not comply with open-government laws.
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What looked like a routine measure on the council agenda erupted into a debate about whether private agencies funded by the public should be exempt from state open records laws.
