#recordsrequests — Public Fediverse posts
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Forward Kentucky: Officials can hide texts, emails on private devices from records requests, state Supreme Court rules. “The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that emails and text messages created by public officials on private devices are not public records, a decision that a dissenting supreme court justice fears could destroy ‘the public’s right to know what its government is doing.'”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/28/forward-kentucky-officials-can-hide-texts-emails-on-private-devices-from-records-requests-state-supreme-court-rules/ -
#Election Workers Are Drowning in #RecordsRequests. #AI #Chatbots Could Make It Worse
Experts worry that election deniers could weaponize #chatbots to overwhelm and slow down local officials.
#ElectionDeniers #electionshttps://www.wired.com/story/ai-chatbots-foia-requests-election-workers/
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This city's records request form is _terribly_ designed and ugly ... but at least there's no CAPTCHAs or other Javascript junk making it totally unusable.
#recordsrequests #foia #journalism #sunshineLaw #localjournalism