The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office is required by law to offer legal opinions on “any question of law” submitted by either branch of the Legislature. Historically, those opinions are public, and even posted on the Attorney General’s website. Yet in the case of the attorney general’s surprise reversal that a bill to give families […]
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From Union Leader: MANCHESTER — The Telegraph of Nashua will be honored next month with the Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment Award for its continuing series of stories focusing on just how accessible Nashua area government is to the public.
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The newspaper will be recognized Tuesday, Nov. 12, at the 11th annual Nackey S. Loeb School of Communication’s First Amendment Awards at the Executive Court Conference Center in Manchester. Featured speaker for the luncheon event will be George Stephanopoulos of ABC News.
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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.
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Read More… from NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for December 7, 2012
From SeaCoastOnline.com:
During a hearing on his budget Friday, N.H. Attorney General Michael Delaney complained “his office spent 3,983 hours reviewing right-to-know requests in 2010 and 2011 at a cost of $362,000,” The Associated Press reported.
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Reaction from New England First Amendment Coalition (NEFAC):
A New Hampshire judge ruled last week that Union Leader Corp., publisher of the Granite State's largest daily, should be given the name of a man suspected of starting a fire while smoking in a Laconia apartment complex. The city of Laconia argued that federal and state privacy laws precluded such disclosure.
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