Ohio GOP wants teacher information
And lots of it: Ohio’s Republican Party recently requested the names, home addresses, phone numbers and e-mails of all licensed educators in the state’s database. The Ohio Education Association has...
View ArticleAnyone know about Michigan poll taxes?
We got a request today from someone “researching the history (specifically as it relates to Michigan) of poll taxes, vouchers and other means of limiting access, to either a poll, the court etc.” In...
View ArticlePhantom congressional districts
I believe in government websites disclosing information, but according to the story today about phantom congressional districts, just because something is on a government website, doesn’t mean it’s true.
View ArticleProgress in Wichita?
Wichita’s vice-mayor, Jim Skelton, has weighed in on the side of my pal Bob Weeks. Weeks has requested documents from the Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau. That agency has denied his requests. At...
View ArticleSupreme Court to hear text message case
New York Times: Justices to hear text-message case. Background: A police sergeant in California sent sexually explicit text messages on his government-issued pager. His police chief and several others...
View ArticleOregon AG boosts focus on public access
John Kroger, Oregon’s attorney general, has appointed a public records czar. (Newspapers: Let’s stop calling heads of departments “czars” in 2010. When you call someone in charge of public access to...
View ArticleEmployee salary records in a New Jersey borough
The Concerned and Active Residents of Mount Arlington asked Mt. Arlington three times for documents relating to “all borough employees, their annual salary, title, position, payroll record and length...
View ArticleCalifornia AOC to let some sun in?
The California Administrative Office of the Courts is having a bad year, which recently got worse. Possibly to avoid becoming the CRU of the judicial world, the AOC is endorsing a new set of rules that...
View ArticleIllinois gets its chief FOIA enforcer
Lisa Madigan, attorney general in Illinois, has chosen someone on her staff to be the state’s Top Sunshine Cop.
View ArticleStarting 2010 off to a sunshiny start?
No, because Mark Sanford’s attorneys have filed a reverse FOIA to forbid the North Pole from releasing its Naughty List in response to an open records request.
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