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Economic Development Secrecy At Stake in Tennessee…
Secret economic development…always a bad idea, rears its ugly head in Tennessee: A bill that would restrict access to economic development records is drawing fire, with critics arguing it could open a...
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Why On Earth Would We Make Performance Reviews of Principals Secret?
A bad idea percolates in Arizona.. Advocates for government transparency are objecting to language in an education bill that would prevent the public from reviewing school principals’ performance...
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Gun Secrecy Bill Dies in Virginia…
Miracles never cease… A state Senate committee has killed a bill to close concealed-weapons permit information to public view. Del. Mark Cole, R–Spotsylvania, said he brought the bill because he...
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In South Carolina, They Want to Give ‘Discretion’ to Law Enforcement…
Yeah, I wonder how this would work out? Raising the hackles of watchdogs throughout the state, Rep. Chris Murphy of Summerville has proposed amendments to the state’s Freedom of Information Act statute...
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Wyoming Works On An FOI Bill…Improvement or Setback?
As always, it depends on how the sausage is ground: State senators approved a public records bill Monday after changing it to keep secret from the public many documents that show how elected officials...
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Virginia General Assembly Passes the Lobbyist Privacy Protection and...
Well, they may as well have named this mind-bogglingly bad bill that, for it will effectively provide the most secretive and untraceable communications (read influence-peddling) channel in any state...
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Exemption for professors dies a quiet death in Maryland…
A bill introduced in the General Assembly to shield professors at state universities from politics-driven public record requests has been withdrawn after its House sponsor concluded no new law was...
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Want to Know Your Kids’ Teachers’ Ratings? Tennessee Doesn’t Want You to…
In a classic example of cloak-and-dagger lawmaking, a Tennessee legislative committee tacked a secrecy provision onto a completely unrelated piece of legislation with no advance notice to anyone…...
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Maine rejects terrible FOI exemption…
The Maine House of Representatives decisively rejected an attempt to create a dangerous exemption to Maine’s Freedom of Access Act, which guarantees access to public records. From the ACLU: LD 1805,...
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In Maine, a full-out assault on open government…
As the Portland Press Herald put it, “The public’s access to government information is under attack in Maine.” To wit: The Legislature will take up several bills this session that would further...
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