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Report: EPA administrator was directly involved in climate data purge

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt was directly involved in wiping scientific data relating to climate change and air pollution, according to documents and correspondence obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by environmentalist activists, ThinkProgress reported Monday. Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) was investigating the removal and modification of thousands of pages of […]

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Colorado Transparency News – Jan. 30, 2018

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Colorado Transparency News – Jan. 30, 2018   Newsletter of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping Coloradans understand and use their rights of access to the records and proceedings of government and the judiciary. Subscribe to this newsletter | Like CFOIC on Facebook | Follow @CoFOIC  DONATE SAVE THE DATE! MAR. 16, 2018, FOI WORKSHOP AND AWARDS […]

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Philadelphia’s Office of Open Data and Digital Transformation Works to Overhaul City Services

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Philadelphia’s Office of Open Data and Digital Transformation (ODDT) is a relatively new agency, originally formed in May 2016, only a few months after Mayor Jim Kenney took office. This office, which is helmed by Chief Data Officer Tim Wisniewski, is responsible, of course, for the city’s work with open data. But it has also […]

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Missouri AG Proposes Penalty for Violating Records Retention Law

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Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is urging lawmakers to make three major changes to how the state enforces its public records laws: ·  First, he’s proposing to create a new division within his office that would have independence when investigating state violators of the Sunshine Law, Missouri’s open records law. ·   Hawley is asking […]

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UT, UT System institutions remove online open records request logs

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UT-Austin and UT System institutions are no longer posting past open records requests on their websites. The UT System’s open records policy required its institutions to display filed open records requests on their websites for years. But after the UT System amended this policy in September, UT-Austin and multiple UT institutions have removed these postings. […]

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Secret committees influence big Louisville development deals

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – After organizers abruptly canceled the FoodPort project in 2016, Mayor Greg Fischer’s administration sought new uses for 24 acres of city-owned land in the Russell neighborhood. In September, Fischer announced that the Louisville Urban League would transform the vacant site, known as Heritage West, into a $30 million track-and-field complex at […]

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Virginia Supreme Court announces plans for public records, statewide case search

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RICHMOND — Virginia’s Supreme Court announced plans Tuesday to formulate a plan for public access to court records by Dec. 1 and offer statewide access to online case information by July 2019. In supporting “reasonable” access to judicial records, the Supreme Court said it would develop a proposal for public records access before the end […]

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Judge: Louisiana Records Law Doesn’t Apply to Pipeline Plan

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s public records law doesn’t apply to a private, for-profit company building a 162-mile-long (261-kilometer) crude oil pipeline in the state, a judge said Thursday in rejecting a bid by environmental groups for access to company records. State District Court Judge Michael Caldwell said he sees no basis for compelling […]

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AG Hawley proposes three steps to reinforce Missouri’s open-records laws

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JEFFERSON CITY  Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley on Monday announced three proposals to strengthen the state’s open-records laws that he hopes legislators will pass in the coming months. Hawley, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, is asking lawmakers to create a transparency division in the attorney general’s office; to grant the attorney general’s office subpoena […]

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