From I-Newsource:
San Diego mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio keeps a private calendar that shows he had appointments with newspaper owner Doug Manchester in December and in May, despite his office insisting no records of communication exist between the two men.
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From The Citizen’s Voice:
Luzerne County has acknowledged possessing thousands of emails excluded from an open-records release because of an assumption the emails were deleted.
The emails were from Leonard Piazza, the ousted director of elections fired April 11. The county has resisted access to Piazza’s emails since The Citizens’ Voice filed an April 12 request for Piazza’s emails dating back to Nov. 1, 2010.
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From The Gainesville Sun:
A circuit court judge has ruled that the city of Gainesville did not violate the state’s public records law by requiring that a former employee pay some $40,000 in advance to process a public records request made in connection with an employment discrimination complaint against the city.
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From IndyStar.com:
Nancy Sebring says officials with Des Moines Public Schools have been slow to respond to requests for emails that she believes will “give a full picture” of what transpired following her May 10 resignation.
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From Indiana Public Media:
Indiana plans to approve a new statewide rule next week outlining which government emails have to be saved — and for how long. State public records law requires policy-related records to be saved for three years and contracts to be saved for ten years.
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From The Des Moines Register:
Additional email exchanges between former Des Moines schools superintendent Nancy Sebring and her male lover became public Friday after a Polk County judge refused to block their release.
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From The Santa Fe New Mexican:
Gov. Susana Martinez isn’t the first New Mexico politician to cause controversy by using private email accounts to communicate about public policy. Three years ago in Las Vegas, N.M., the late former Mayor Tony Marquez was in a similar, if not identical situation.
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From Santa Fe New Mexican:
After a week of taking heat following the disclosure that Gov. Susana Martinez and top officials in her administration used personal emails to conduct state business, on Monday she ordered all state employees in agencies under her authority to use official state email for state business.
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Opinion from The Des Moines Register:
I was at a dinner party not long after the scandal erupted over former Des Moines schools Superintendent Nancy Sebring’s emails. At one point, the hostess turned to me and asked, “So, why should government emails be public?”
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