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Showing posts with label FOI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FOI. Show all posts
Monday, May 19, 2025

LoMonte tells timely Tenn. tale of vanishing public records, legislative response in retention requirement

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My friend and colleague Frank LoMonte , CNN senior legal counsel, has published a superb and timely new article, "The Race to Erase: De...
Monday, February 27, 2023

FOI seminar shines light on transparency research

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In fall 2022, students in my freedom-of-information (FOI) law seminar produced another range of compelling research papers in which they inq...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Upcoming NFOIC Summit features access all-stars

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Access-to-information (ATI, RTK, FOI) enthusiasts are invited and encouraged to attend the online 2022 summit of the National Freedom of Inf...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Despite lack of statute, anti-SLAPP blocks mining company suit as abuse of process in South Africa

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Coffee Bay is a tourist destination on the Eastern Cape. ( photo by Jon Rawlinson CC BY 2.0 ) Two weeks ago, a South African court recogni...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Legal scholars overlook scholarship about state FOIA, but dedicated academics toil for state transparency

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Professor Robert Steinbuch and I aim to draw attention to the undersung work of state-law transparency  scholars through our recent publica...
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Monday, October 19, 2020

Court: Irish officials must justify non-disclosure under FOIA exemption for commercial information

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Ireland Supreme Court chamber ( Michael Foley CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 ) In two judgments in late September, the Supreme Court of Ireland ruled tha...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Research for educational opportunity, accountability requires transparency, need not forgo student privacy

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When I had the privilege of working on transparency issues in the Arkansas General Assembly in the 20-aughts, two legislators and I promoted...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

First Amendment right of access to court records is alive and kicking in electronic era

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Developments in the First Amendment right of access to court records were on the menu this afternoon for a continuing legal education pro...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Tort litigation as means to truth about the Troubles, authors propose; approach parallels access theory

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A new article from researchers in Newcastle, England, posits the use of tort litigation to exonerate the right to truth in relation to the T...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

Shine the light: 'Journal of Civic Information' debuts

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There can't be enough research on facilitating the freedom of information, given that today we are a global information society.  A new ...