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New Hampshire routinely ranks among the worst states in the country on the transparency and responsiveness of its...
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Nov. 1--Our meetings with incumbents and challengers alike for several local offices have pointed out a disturbing trend:...
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Donna A. Yost has filed a lawsuit claiming Bay County and Prosecutor Kurt C. Asbury violated the state...
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BRIDGEPORT -- Don't expect the city to accept public record requests by e-mail. Or post minutes for the...
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Oct. 26--BRIDGEPORT -- Don't expect the city to accept public record requests by e-mail. Or post minutes for...
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Oct. 30--FARMINGTON -- Franklin County has denied a Freedom of Access request from a private company that wants...
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Contra Costa County is defending censorship as a matter of legal liability in deleting all information from written...
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Nov. 5--Pulaski Fiscal Court, Somerset City Council, UNITE and some local citizens went on record as opposing a...
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The Arizona Supreme Court on Oct. 29 unanimously agreed that Arizona public records request statutes apply to electronic...
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Stonewalling is something reporters confront all too often with government at every level. Few public agencies reveal their...
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Metadata constitutes a public record and is therefore subject to disclosure under public records law, the Arizona Supreme...
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A resident seeking an engineering document about the old Jacobs Creek Bridge is baffled by officials' stonewalling and...
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The Florida policy on open records reads: "It is the policy of this state that all state, county,...
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Oct. 28--The state attorney general's office has ruled that Kentucky Community and Technical College System improperly withheld documents...
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Oct. 28--The state attorney general's office has ruled that Kentucky Community and Technical College System improperly withheld documents...
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Definitions for: Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA)
Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA)
federal law requiring that, with specified exemptions, documents and materials generated or held by federal agencies be made available to the public and establishing guidelines for their disclosure. Exemptions include issues relating to national security.
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