The Arizona First Amendment Coalition filed a motion Monday, April 26, 2021, opposing a contractor’s request to keep secret its methods of recounting ballots in the metro Phoenix area. The contractor, Florida-based Cyber Ninjas, was hired by Arizona’s state Senate to oversee the recount of 2.1 million ballots. A judge plans to review Cyber Ninjas’ […]
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Phoenix sued for not releasing records tied to Suns arena renovations
A downtown real-estate developer is suing Phoenix for withholding public records related to the renovation of Talking Stick Resort Arena, home of the Phoenix Suns. Phoenix has been exploring renovating the 26-year-old arena for more than a year. The City Council voted last year to pay a sports consultant $200,000 to study the idea and […]
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AZ: Public records are available at a high price
Unifying for Florence, a local advocacy group, filed a public records request for three years worth of emails between top officials in Florence Unified School District. The district responded, saying the information was available for a price: $42,202.50.
Using simple math, the district is saying Superintendent Amy Fuller exchanges an average of 118 pages of email with her assistant superintendents and board members each day, including weekends and holidays.
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Feds blocked key interviews in state inquiry
From Arizona Republic: Federal officials blocked state investigators from interviewing members of a second hotshot crew that fought the Yarnell Hill Fire because they feared some of their statements might become publicly disclosed under Arizona’s Public Records Law, according to correspondence released Thursday.
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NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for September 20, 2013
From NFOIC: A few state FOIA and local open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week. While you're at it, be sure to check out State FOIA Friday Archives.
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Access to fraternities’ discipline records limited
From USA Today: PHOENIX — On Nov. 18, 20 members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Arizona State University confronted three members of a rival fraternity at a Tempe, Ariz., apartment complex. The fight ended with a Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity member in the emergency room with a concussion and broken jaw. Tau Kappa Epsilon is now on probation from the university as a result.
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Council to weigh in on public records searches
From Arizona Daily Sun: Arizona’s public records law is this: Agencies have to keep records that reflect their official activities — ones funded by taxpayers. … But maybe it should be changed, say a couple people within the city of Flagstaff government, citing instances when it’s troublesome.
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Arizona undisclosed CPS records downplayed
From AZCentral.com:
Questions remained Monday about records that Arizona’s child-welfare agency has failed to disclose for more than a decade, but state and county officials generally downplayed the significance of the computer error that supposedly caused the problem.
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Phoenix computer glitch hid some CPS records for years, may have led to wrongful removals of children from families
From The Daily Courier:
PHOENIX (AP) – A computer glitch at Arizona’s child-welfare agency kept some public records hidden from parents and their lawyers for more than 15 years.
The missing records could have led to children being improperly removed from their homes and stopped caregivers from filing civil claims against the state.
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