From Lehigh Valley Live:
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Court Orders City to Open 911 Records
Internal Critique of Bush Torture Memos Declassified
Haley wants FOIA exemption lifted
From MyrtleBeachOnline.com:
Gov. Nikki Haley wants lawmakers to lift the exemption in state law that allows them to shield their emails and other internal communication from public view.
But how the governor’s office has pursued that goal during the ongoing legislative session has put Haley’s administration at odds with the S.C. Press Association, which represents and serves the state’s daily and weekly newspapers.
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Prosecutor: 4 Bono officials to face FOI charges
From NECN.com:
Prosecutor Scott Ellington said Thursday he found sufficient evidence to charge four Bono city officials with misdemeanor violation of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.
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NFOIC’s FOI Friday for April 6, 2012
A few open government and FOIA news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier.
Adkisson ordered to release emails
A state district judge on Thursday ruled that Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Adkisson must release messages about public business from his private email account, but the legal battle is far from over.
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More records from Steve Nunn murder case released
From Courier-Journal:
Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government released a second round of files Thursday from the murder case against former state Rep. Steve Nunn, who is serving a life sentence for fatally shooting his ex-fiancee Amanda Ross in 2009.
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Decision on lawsuit may take months
From Asbury Park Press:
When exactly can the information floating inside a computer be considered a “government record” that is open to public inspection? It’s a question being considered by the courts as a result of a lawsuit by the Gannett New Jersey newspapers against the small Somerset County borough of Raritan.
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Gainesville officials worry about recouping cost of fulfilling requests
From Gainesville Times:
As part of the revisions to open records laws, the cost of getting government documents would drop to 10 cents from 25 cents per page.
That change may seem insignificant, but it has troubled Gainesville city officials, who say they already lose money filling records requests.
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Kasson Library Board violates open meeting law
From PostBulletin.com:
The city of Kasson has been notified that the library board did not comply with the state "sunshine law" when members met on Oct. 21.
The library board called an emergency meeting that day to discuss terminating an employee, but the state commissioner of administration has determined that the meeting was not in fact an emergency meeting.
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