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City may require employees to take public records training
NFOIC’s FOI Friday for March 16, 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. Be sure to check out Sunshine Week 2012 News while you're at it.
Government confirms it has secret interpretation of Patriot Act Spy Powers
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In recognition of Sunshine Week 2012
We've compiled a list of and links to articles and editorials about and in recognition of Sunshine Week 2012 and the events and observances that are being held in the states.
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Lakeland (Fl.) public records watchdog Joel Chandler honored
From TheLedger.com:
LAKELAND | Joel Chandler's success in taking on public agencies that balk at turning over documents deemed in the public domain has earned the Lakeland man the 2012 Local Hero Award of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
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In the era of shrinking newspapers, public needs to assert rights
Opinion from Palo Alto Patch:
Something is wrong.
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Medical privacy, or public records?
From The Post and Courier:
What do pension records, EMS response time data and coroners' reports have in common?
At some point, South Carolina officials considered all three to be medical records.
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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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What cost freedom — of information?
Here are several interesting items of note in the last couple days regarding costs associated with fulfilling public records requests—and the fighting thereof.
Granted, if not these then at least some agencies likely have used or will use costs—actual or estimated, reasonable or outlandish—as a way of deflecting criticism when requested records are not searched for adequately or are ultimately not located, and that is unacceptable.
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OpenRural puts public records online
From PBS:
Storing paper records in the attic of a police station might sound like a practice from the distant past, but that's what I learned happens in at least one rural North Carolina county. In fact, good old-fashioned paper copies of public records are still common in rural parts of North Carolina.
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