Editorial from Lebanon Express:
This week is Sunshine Week, where journalists everywhere discuss the importance of open government and access to information.
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Tag: oregon transparency
For Sunshine Week, just a little light
From Corvallis Gazette Times:
Sunday marks the start of Sunshine Week, the national initiative that’s meant to call attention to the importance of open government and freedom of information.
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NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for February 15, 2013
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Bills would limit Oregon public records law
From San Francisco Chronicle:
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Want to find out if a particular motel has bedbugs? … Who won the lottery? … How much a retired public employee is earning from a pension?
Some in the Oregon Legislature want to keep that information confidential, and several bills would cut off public access to those records.
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Rosenblum may review Oregon public records laws
The Oregonian sought public records for analysis in housing reporting
GUEST VIEWPOINT: Inconvenience the price for open government
From The Register-Guard:
In his March 25 Commentary article, Robert Roth included a partial quotation from me to suggest that I have concerns with the court’s ruling in Dumdi vs. Handy. That is not the case. I always have believed that Oregon’s Open Meetings Law prohibited the conduct that led the court to conclude two Lane County commissioners willfully violated Oregon’s public meeting law.
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