April 2007

"Down in Fayette County, it's tough to get records from any municipality. You've got to jump through hoops, go to offices and jump through more hoops to get anything. They make it hard because they think you'll go away" Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 23, 2007
  • Ohio policy makers ponder what constitutes a record. Do text messages qualify? The Columbus Dispatch, April 22, 2007
  • I smell something fishy... Outer Banks Sentinel, April 21, 2007
  • Good news for record requestors in Michigan. As reported by the Associated Press via WLNS.com, April 20, 2007
  • Good news for record requestors in Colorado too! The Coloradan, April 19, 2007
  • This seems like a great bill to me--if you are getting public dollars, then your records should become public too! Canton Repository, April 18, 2007
  • Congrats to Brigham Young University police for their open and transparent stance toward records that some might argue are private. BYU News Net, April 17, 2007
  • OK, so maybe it's not the most earth-shattering of subjects, but here is a great example of someone with no experience or expertise having huge success filing a FOIA request. North West Arkansas News, April 17, 2007
  • Some interesting opinions on how FOIA laws apply to the judiciary. The Day, April 15, 2007
  • Even City Hall sometimes has to resort to FOIA in order to learn all the facts. Democrat and Chronicle, April 14, 2007
  • Good news for Washingtonians wondering how much their local governments are racking up in legal fees. The Olympian, April 12, 2007
  • I love this commentary.
"An open and democratic society isn't easy. An open and democratic society isn't pretty. An open and democratic society is time-consuming. But an open government and freedom of information is what we must have if our democracy is to survive." Ellen Smith, North County Gazette, April 10, 2007
  • It only takes one brave person to show when public matters are being kept secret. Columbia Tribune, April 10, 2007
  • How do these Illinois counties stack up when replying to open records requests? The Herald News, April 9, 2007
  • Arkansas city officals play dumb about what constitutes an open meeting or an open record. The Morning News, April 7, 2007
Quote from the above article (emphasis added): "Alderwoman Alston responds to Hinshaw's e-mail, saying, "I'm thinking that the executive session is not that great of an idea now. Meeting with everybody together ... is a great idea. Freedom of Information Act puts us in a pickle in this case. Wish we could just get together and talk it out like the reasonable adults that we are."

...wouldn't reasonable adults talk things out in the open?

  • Quite the buzz in Virginia--should records of concealed weapon carriers be publically availble? The Roanoke Times, April 7, 2007
  • It will be interesting to see which way the courts go in this case regarding the openess of police records. By Pete Wickham of the Jackson Sun, April 4, 2007
  • This AP article published in The Columbian covers an ongoing court case in Idaho. The court is being asked to determine whether e-mails written on PUBLIC agency computers, using PUBLIC e-mail address, written by PUBLIC employees are in fact public records....seems like a no brainer to me. April 3, 2007
  • Some great ideas on the ways to improve governmental transparency in Pennsylvania from Bob Martin of the Philadelphia Inquirer, April 2, 2007
  • Tom Shoop of GovExec.com has some stats of the state of federal FOIA responses, April 2, 2004
  • Mark McCormick's article in the Wichita Eagle brings up an interesting question: are the private companies contracted by public entities subject to FOIA? And if not, shouldn't they be? April 1, 2007


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