From Tennessee Secretary of State
The 2011-2012 Tennessee Blue Book, considered the manual of state government and state history, is now available online.
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Tag: FOI
New Jersey just got 600 more websites transparent
From Sunshine Review
Literally, New Jersey just got 600 more websites transparent. A law passed this last January is requiring 600 local entities, such as water utilities, port authorities and county park commissions, to provide budgets, audit reports, meeting dates, contacts and other information on the Internet.
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Things you should have easy access to, but don’t
From Detroit Free Press
About five years ago, finding out whether your new neighbor spent time behind bars for murder, rape, robbery — even writing bad checks — required little more than an Internet connection.
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Editorial: More local compliance on FOI laws needed
From The Journal News
The public’s right to know how government operates — and how it spends taxpayers’ money — supersedes local laws that pledge “confidentiality” and aim to protect the “privacy” of public officials.
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Let the Sun Shine In
From Savethenews.org
Earlier this month, we issued a challenge to our members. We asked them to take a day off from work, visit their local television stations and … rifle through their filing cabinets.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Current Freedom of Information Act Lawsuits
From Electronic Frontier Foundation
We reviewed what EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests revealed in the past year. Today, we’ll take a look at the FOIA lawsuits we filed last year and the information we hope the suits will provide.
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Newspaper wins appeal for 2002 police report
From ForestLeaves:
Hillside Police Department must turn over a 2002 police report describing the arrest of Emanuel “Chris” Welch for domestic battery, the Illinois attorney general ordered Friday.
Forest Leaves has been seeking the report since January, but Hillside police refused a Freedom of Information Act request, saying there was no arrest and that the matter was private.
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City may require employees to take public records training
County in Illinois Goes On Twitter To Ask For Citizen Feedback On Public Records Policy
From Sunshine Review:
A very important component of open government involves collaboration between governments and citizens. The purpose of transparency is so that citizens can play their role in holding governments accountable. Also, because governments need to answer to citizens because they work to serve our interests, it is proper that they involve us in key decisions.
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Group sues for release of DOJ memo
From Washington Post:
The latest call for the Obama administration to publicly release its legal justification for a drone strike that killed U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen last year came Wednesday in the form of a federal lawsuit.
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