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Submissions for July 2008:

Records opinion affects lawmakers from Okie Campaigns on 7/25/08

State Public Records Act Covers Government E-Mail Metadata from The Volokh Conspiracy on 7/23/08

Public Records Show ... City of Seattle Thumbs Nose at New Tax Law from OG-Blog on 7/23/08

After 134 Days... from Bill Hobbs on 7/23/08

Are Roy Barnes And DeKalb County Circumventing Open Records Laws? from Peach Pundit on 7/23/08

Public Access To Records Made More Difficult from The E-Lee Dispatch on 7/23/08

Court: No more secrecy for crash data from Citizen Vox on 7/22/08

Open records, closed meetings - What’s all the fuss? from At the River's Bend on 7/22/08

Local: Still Swingin... from Peoria Rocks! on 7/21/08

Traverse City official requests info from Elk Rapids Blog on 7/21/08

'Judge Was Right' from Cataract City on 7/20/08

Memo to towns: Save your email records from Blue Jersey on 7/19/08

Stop Being Pundits; Start Being Activists from Tech Republican on 7/19/08

Off the Cuff Thoughts from Electric City Weblog on 7/19/08

More School District Shenanigans from The Lehigh Valley Political Blog on 7/18/08

Take two minutes to open up election results to everyone. from Young Philly Politics on 7/18/08

Page, Mo GOP spar over e-mails from Political Fix on 7/17/08

City Loses Open Records Dispute from Electric City Weblog on 7/17/08

Speaker: No time for open records bill from This Old State on 7/17/08

Paging Kinder from Ky3 Political Notebook on 7/17/08

Page blasts Kinder over Blunt e-mail records, says he'll comply with request for his own e-mail from Prime Buzz on 7/17/08

Texas Open Records Law For Bloggers from Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog on 7/16/08

Were There More Federal Law Violations By Region 10 School Bosses? from Cool Justice on 7/15/08

Some Kansas 'Open Records' too open? from Kansas Meadowlark on 7/15/08

West Bend Schools Getting Frustrated with Citizens’ Questions from Boots and Sabers on 7/15/08

Selectively Personal from Bill Hobbs on 7/14/08

The 99-page solution from The Big Question on 7/14/08

Robert Felner, the University of Louisville, Open Records Requests Galore - an Interesting Look at the Situation from Page One Kentucky on 7/14/08

Score one for openness from The Vault on 7/12/08

The Cost of County IT Services from Charles County Cafe on 7/12/08

IT AIN'T OVER TILL THE FAT DOUCHE BAG SINGS -- AND PAYS A JUST FINE from The Cool Justice Report on 7/11/08

Open Records Veto from Rhode Island's 12th on 7/11/08

Houston Chronicle lists every municipal employees salary by name. from LIS News on 7/10/08

Harris outlines plan to strengthen Sunshine Law from The Turner Report on 7/10/08

NetRoots Nation: Sunshine Laws for Bloggers from Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer blog on 7/9/08

New York Legislature Passes Open Records and Open Meetings Reforms from Citizen Media Law Project on July 9, 2008

RIGHT TO KNOW: FOIL used to uncover Virginia lottery prize problem; New Yorkers protected from similiar situation from Your Right to Know on 7/8/08

Quorum Court hijinks from Arkansas Blog on 7/08/08

Ga. high court refuses to compel Athens police to open files on unsolved 1992 murder from The WVUIT Free Press on 7/5/08

Freedom of Information from The Edge of the American West on 7/4/08

Ed Morrison · A modest proposal for the 4th from Brewed Fresh Daily on 7/4/08

RIGHT TO KNOW: Freedom of Information Law used to obtain teacher sick day records from Your Right to Know on 7/3/08

An Opportunity Lost (FOIA) from Missouri Press News on 7/3/08

New Open Records Law-Major Improvements from TaxingTennessee on 7/2/08

Open records -- e-mails, IMs and text messages, oh my! from Laptop City Hall on 7/2/08

New Open Records Law takes effect in Tennessee from The Tennessee ConserVOLiance on 7/2/08

Earthjustice in Kansas: The Press Release from Voice For Liberty in Wichita on 7/2/08

Wimberley ISD praised for open records from Homeroom on 6/25/08

RI Bill Will Strengthen Citizens' FOI Rights from Cite Media Law Blog on 6/25/08

Yee bill that would open up public contracts, audits on governor's desk from PolitickerCA on 6/25/08

Exploring the federal Freedom of Information Law from Your Right to Know on 6/25/08

Auditor's Office records search up and running from Bellingham Herald Blog on 6/23/08

Thoughts on open source and politics 2.0 from Frank Hecker on 6/23/08

Countdown to the End of Chief Ervins Contract…What’s Going to Happen? from Pocomoke Tattler on 6/15/08

Happy Father’s Day: Observations on open government from the Founding Fathers and Open government expert: Queensbury school’s latest FOIL response is 'gobbledygook' from Your Right to Know on 6/15/08 and 6/17/08

The Program Support Center’s Amazing Freedom of Information Office $10,144 Search Fee from Adverse Action on 6/14/08

Editors:

• Check out the links that have been submitted, and contact the writers that interest you.

• Feel free to use the Workbook (or the SandBox) as a staging/rough draft area for your edition.

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