#openrecords — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #openrecords, aggregated by home.social.
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StreetsblogMASS: We’ve Been Waiting For Over A Year For Boston to Honor State Public Records Laws. “For the past year and a half, StreetsblogMASS has been waiting for the City of Boston’s public records office to release city emails, calendar appointments, and other documents related to Mayor Wu’s election-year ‘review’ of the city’s transportation projects and policies. But City Hall […]
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Kansas Reflector: Kansas records conflict could be handled more smoothly by an open government advisory board. “Taxpayers should not be on the hook simply because state law creates an unresolved conflict of interest for the body enforcing not only KORA but also its companion, the Kansas Open Meetings Act. Rather, the law should empower the agency enforcing those laws to be free to construe them […]
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered To Release Some Of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out.
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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.”
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A group of eight state and national media organizations want the records in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's divorce case released to the public.
#Court #News #Politics #Texas #ANGELAPAXTON #KenPaxton #OpenRecords #USCongress #USSenate
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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!
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New Uvalde school district records provide more details about campus safety concerns raised before the deadly 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting — and reveal in a few teachers’ own words how traumatized they remained after the massacre.
#Education #EducationNews #Guns #LawEnforcement #News #Police #SchoolShooting #Texas #OpenRecords #RobbElementary #UvaldePolice #UvaldeSchoolPolice #UvaldeSchoolShooting
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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.
#stl #stlouis #missouri #localjournalism #datajournalism #dataviz #opendata #transparency #publicrecords #openrecords
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Nationwide review finds patchwork, ‘broken’ systems for resolving open records disputes
https://apnews.com/article/58becea049a4eb5fac688e8aee1aac0e #openrecords #sunshine #AP #journalism
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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
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Does The #Kentucky #AttorneyGeneral Go To #Work? An #Investigation.
An #openrecords #request shows #DanielCameron hasn’t used his #keyfob to get into the #state #Capitol for the last three years. His #office won't say #why. Huh?
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Kentucky #Politics #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
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"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". https://apnews.com/article/reynolds-open-records-settlement-iowa-b643dcc5c83fa9992c8770f0dfc446ad
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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. 🤬#OpenRecords https://web.archive.org/web/20230406170020/https://provost.wisc.edu/2023/03/30/provost-search/
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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
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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 https://missouriindependent.com/2022/11/15/missouri-judge-rules-ags-office-under-josh-hawley-knowingly-violated-transparency-laws/