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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #openrecords, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Truthout: Open Records Advocates Alarmed as DHS Abandons Text Archiving Software. “An agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tasked with ensuring that electronic messages on the devices of its workforce comply with public records laws admitted last week that it has stopped using software to do so.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/12/truthout-open-records-advocates-alarmed-as-dhs-abandons-text-archiving-software/

  2. I'm pumped. After years of searching I finally located my brother's birthfather. He was a Danish sailor and my brother was born in Canada, so all I had were two very weak second-cousin genetic matches on two different testing services to go by. But tonight I finally found him! So that's all three of us adopted siblings with our birthparents identified!
    #BastardNation #Adoptees #OpenRecords #Adoption #TruthOverLies

  3. I'm pumped. After years of searching I finally located my brother's birthfather. He was a Danish sailor and my brother was born in Canada, so all I had were two very weak second-cousin genetic matches on two different testing services to go by. But tonight I finally found him! So that's all three of us adopted siblings with our birthparents identified!
    #BastardNation #Adoptees #OpenRecords #Adoption #TruthOverLies

  4. I'm pumped. After years of searching I finally located my brother's birthfather. He was a Danish sailor and my brother was born in Canada, so all I had were two very weak second-cousin genetic matches on two different testing services to go by. But tonight I finally found him! So that's all three of us adopted siblings with our birthparents identified!
    #BastardNation #Adoptees #OpenRecords #Adoption #TruthOverLies

  5. I'm pumped. After years of searching I finally located my brother's birthfather. He was a Danish sailor and my brother was born in Canada, so all I had were two very weak second-cousin genetic matches on two different testing services to go by. But tonight I finally found him! So that's all three of us adopted siblings with our birthparents identified!
    #BastardNation #Adoptees #OpenRecords #Adoption #TruthOverLies

  6. I'm pumped. After years of searching I finally located my brother's birthfather. He was a Danish sailor and my brother was born in Canada, so all I had were two very weak second-cousin genetic matches on two different testing services to go by. But tonight I finally found him! So that's all three of us adopted siblings with our birthparents identified!
    #BastardNation #Adoptees #OpenRecords #Adoption #TruthOverLies

  7. Among local governments, St. Louis city is in a class by itself with its glacial handling of records requests.

    For a third straight year, the city took more than 100 days to answer the Post-Dispatch's annual request for payroll data.

    St. Louis County needed just 8.

    stltoday.com/news/local/govern

    #stl #stlouis #missouri #localjournalism #datajournalism #dataviz #opendata #transparency #publicrecords #openrecords

  8. Ohio House of Representatives: Representatives Ray and Isaacsohn Introduce Bill to Address Frivolous Public Records Requests. “The bill will specifically restrict individuals from making public requests that are meant to harass and disrupt public officials and their offices. The bill will also equip public offices with a process if they believe to have received a harassing or disruptive […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/31/ohio-house-of-representatives-representatives-ray-and-isaacsohn-introduce-bill-to-address-frivolous-public-records-requests/

  9. News from the States: Colorado could allow longer time to fulfill open records requests. “Colorado could soon allow governments to take longer to fulfill requests subject to the Colorado Open Records Act under a bill in the state Legislature, but it includes a carve out for journalists. Senate Bill 25-77 passed a House committee Monday and now heads to the full House chamber for […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/news-from-the-states-colorado-could-allow-longer-time-to-fulfill-open-records-requests/

  10. Created a bot to post cases from the #Pennsylvania Open Records docket: @OpenRecordsPA

    It's a feed of decisions used by the OOR and is a good way to know what other #OpenRecords requesters are requesting

  11. "The court unanimously rejected the governor’s argument that her office wasn’t required to respond in a timely manner to record requests and that she could bypass the state’s #openrecords law by simply ignoring the requests". apnews.com/article/reynolds-op

  12. Wondering about the UW-Madison Provost search? “Who were the candidates, again?” Well you’ll have to use the Internet Archive, bc the candidates and their CVs have been deleted from the UW website. 🤬 web.archive.org/web/2023040617

  13. Someone was shot and killed in Sandy Springs and this is literally all that the police department included in their incident report. #foia #openrecords #crime #sandysprings #sandyspringscrier #appenmedia

  14. Someone was shot and killed in Sandy Springs and this is literally all that the police department included in their incident report. #foia #openrecords #crime #sandysprings #sandyspringscrier #appenmedia

  15. Someone was shot and killed in Sandy Springs and this is literally all that the police department included in their incident report. #foia #openrecords #crime #sandysprings #sandyspringscrier #appenmedia

  16. Missouri court orders Sen. Josh Hawley to pay $12,000 in civil penalties plus attorney fees for violating state Sunshine Law, after he used private email to dodge public scrutiny while running for his 2018 senate seat. Sadly, a small price for him to pay for breaking the law as state AG he was charged with upholding. #FOIA #openrecords missouriindependent.com/2022/1