Alabama FOI Resources
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Alabama Center for Open Government
(A member of NFOIC)
- P.O. Box 1000
- Montgomery, AL 36101-1000
- Contact: Kenneth M. Hare, Montgomery Advertiser Editorial Page Editor
- Phone: (334) 262-161
- E-mail hkare@montgomeryadvertiser.com
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QUICK FOI INFORMATION
Open Meetings Law Al. Code §36-12-40 et seq.
Closed: Attorney-client meetings; discussions where "character or good name" of a person is involved; and grand jury and juvenile proceedings.
Open Records Law Al. Code §36-25A-1 et seq.
Exempt: Banking, juvenile court, hospital and probation reports; identity of Medicaid recipients; reports of suspected disease cases; tax and financial statements.
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA
CONTACTS
- Alabama Attorney General
- Alabama State House
- 11 South Union Street
- Montgomery, AL 36130
- Phone (334) 242-7300
- http://www.ago.state.al.us/
- Alabama Press Association
- Alabama Newspaper Advertising Service, Inc.
- 3324 Independence Drive, Suite 200
- Birmingham, Alabama 35209
- Phone (205) 871-7737
- Fax (205) 871-7740
- http://www.alabamapress.org/
- State Sunshine Chair
- Gregory Enns
- Alabama Center for Open Government
- Tuscaloosa News
- 315 28th Ave.
- Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
- Phone (205) 722-0191
- Fax (205) 722-0187
- E-mail gregory.enns@tuscaloosanews.com
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FORM LETTERS
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PUBLICATIONS
Alabama Newspaper Legal Manual, edited by Bill Keller and Dennis Bailey. No publisher indicated, 1988. 10 p.
From the text: "Alabama Courtrooms have a history of openness. Before most Alabamians moved from the farm, sessions of the local circuit court provided much high entertainment." Sections include access to the courts, access to government meetings, public records, privacy and libel.
Format: Pamphlet. 11 1/2 in.
Order from:
- Alabama Press Association
- Alabama Newspaper Advertising Service, Inc.
- 3324 Independence Drive, Suite 200
- Birmingham, Alabama 35209
- Phone (205) 871-7737
- Fax (205) 871-7740
- http://www.alabamapress.org/
Guide to Alabama Court Procedures Montgomery, AL: Administrative Office of Courts, 1995. 42 p.
This pamphlet was prepared to help the public understand Alabama's judicial system and processes. As such, it is also useful to the novice reporter or editor wanting an introduction to the courts, their jurisdictions and their procedures. A glossary is included, and the text is supplemented by several excellent charts.
Format: Pamphlet. 11 1/2 in.
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Open Government Guide from the
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
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