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Showing posts with label public records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public records. Show all posts
Saturday, September 13, 2025

U.S. FOIA committee contemplates research, reform

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The federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee , on which I serve as a non-governmental member, held a public meeting  Thu...
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...
Friday, December 6, 2024

FOIA Advisory Committee takes aim at volume, other challenges in access to public records

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The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee , serving the National Archives, held a public meeting yesterday via WebEx, and the...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

ACUS seeks consultant on access to public records

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The Administrative Conference of the United States ( ACUS ) has posted a request for proposals (RFP) seeking "a consultant to produce ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Police reform shines light on disciplinary records

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CC0 Pixabay via picryl A favorable reform to follow the police protest movement of recent years, stemming in particular from the killing of...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

Denying public access to crash data, did state agency prioritize fear of litigation over public safety?

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Map of bicycle and pedestrian accidents in Providence, R.I., 2009-17, from Providence Great Streets Master Plan (2020) Rhode Island authori...
Monday, May 22, 2023

DA cannot shield officer, EMT identities from state FOIA disclosure, court rules in fatal police shooting

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A Massachusetts Superior Court in March ordered the district attorney to release investigative records to the family of a man killed by poli...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Public records make $363m toxic-tort verdict possible

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Condensed ethylene oxide, a carcinogen. 102% Yield via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Public records made possible a $363m verdict in a tox...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Opioid settlement disbursements must be transparent, state high court rules in row over nonprofit foundation

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The nonprofit foundation responsible for disbursing hundreds of millions of dollars of opioid settlement money in Ohio is subject to state f...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

'Behind Bars': Petroff article explains how secrecy shields private prison labor from public scrutiny

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Alyssa Petroff , a judicial law clerk at the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, has published Behind Bars: Secrecy in Arizona’s Private Prison...
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...
Friday, July 8, 2022

Judge excoriates city in public records row

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Worcester, Mass., City Hall (Mass. Office of Travel & Tourism CC BY-ND 2.0 via Flickr ) In a remarkable opinion in January 2022, the Ma...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

BU prof's death was tragic accident; investigation shows bad policy, but not criminal negligence

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A Savory Tort Investigation I've posted for public download [no longer posted; contact me for file] files of the investigation into the...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

State constitutional law offers untapped potential to bolster advocacy in freedom of information

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The Vermont Supreme Court relied on the 1777 Vermont Constitution, as amended in 1786, to support access to information under the public rec...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Incarcerated persons have access to information in Massachusetts law, court confirms, but not in all states

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Image by Ichigo121212 from Pixabay A man imprisoned for murder has a right of access to public records no less than anyone else, the Mas...
Monday, September 27, 2021

FOIA requesters need protection against retaliation; in egregious case, court allows First Amendment theory

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Intersection of state highways 42 & 61 in Conyngham Town, Pa. (2019 photo by Mr. Matté CC BY-SA 3.0 ) A bizarre FOIA case decided by t...