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10 Nov, 2025

Advisory Committee on Open Government to discuss public comment, bylaws at meeting Thursday
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Advisory Committee on Open Government to discuss public comment, bylaws at meeting Thursday

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Advisory Committee on Open Government to discuss public comment, bylaws at meeting Thursday

By Deborah Fisher|2025-11-10T14:49:10-06:00November 10, 2025|Categories: Advisory Committee on Open Government|Tags: ACOG, public comment|0 Comments

The Advisory Committee on Open Government is expected to approve its public comment policy and bylaws on Thursday and suggest potential topics to discuss at future meetings. The meeting is the second of the committee's this year and will be at 9 a.m. (CT) Thursday at the Comptroller's Office at the Cordell Hull building. The agenda largely includes organizational items as the committee just began meeting again in August after a hiatus that started during the COVID-19 pandemic. The committee selected co-chairs at its Aug. 25 meeting — Brian Lapps, general counsel for the Tennessee Board of Regents, and Elisha Hodge, who has previously served as the Open Records Counsel [...]

10 Feb, 2025

Victor Ashe named as TCOG’s representative on Advisory Committee on Open Government
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Victor Ashe named as TCOG’s representative on Advisory Committee on Open Government

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Victor Ashe named as TCOG’s representative on Advisory Committee on Open Government

By Deborah Fisher|2025-02-13T14:54:27-06:00February 10, 2025|Categories: Advisory Committee on Open Government|Tags: Advisory Committee on Open Government, Elisha Hodge, Office of Open Records Counsel, Victor Ashe|0 Comments

Victor Ashe of Knoxville has been named as TCOG's representative on the Advisory Committee on Open Government along with four other new members.

19 Oct, 2020

ACOG subcommittee to meet on Friday to review college president search confidentiality

By Deborah Fisher|2020-10-19T13:29:07-05:00October 19, 2020|Categories: Advisory Committee on Open Government, Legislature, state records|Tags: Advisory Committee on Open Government, college president selection, University of Tennessee|1 Comment

A subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on Open Government will meet on Friday to review a 2018 change in the law that expanded confidentiality for college president candidates at state colleges. The subcommittee will meet at 3 p.m. Friday via a Webex conference call. The public may attend with this link. The subcommittee has been asked to discuss the effectiveness of the 2018 amendment to the higher education executive search statute (Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-7-154) in preparation of a report from ACOG to the governor and speakers of the House and Senate. 2018 law expanded confidentiality of finalist candidates In 2018, the Legislature expanded the confidentiality of college president [...]

7 Sep, 2020

Advisory committee to meet on legislation to limit ‘harassing’ requesters

By Deborah Fisher|2020-09-07T11:33:08-05:00September 7, 2020|Categories: Advisory Committee on Open Government, Legislature, requests|Tags: ACOG, harassment, legislation, public records requests, State Sen. Ferrell Haile|1 Comment

The Advisory Committee on Open Government will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday to discuss legislation that would limit public records requests from people found to be harassing the government. The meeting will be livestreamed and can be viewed by the public through the following link: https://tngov.webex.com/tngov/onstage/g.php?MTID=ebf38667b9ad074a64ca63d6e491c9ab1. Sen. Ferrell Haile, R-Gallatin, asked the 14-member committee to review his proposed bill that would allow a government entity to seek an injunction against a person whose behavior met a harassment definition outlined in the bill. Haile has worked on the bill for two years. He introduced it in 2019 and presented an amended version in February to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee [...]

19 Apr, 2018

Column: Lawmakers give Advisory Committee on Open Government opportunity for new life

By Deborah Fisher|2018-04-19T11:42:47-05:00April 19, 2018|Categories: Advisory Committee on Open Government, Legislature, Office of Open Records Counsel|Tags: ACOG, Office of Open Records Counsel, State Rep. Bob Ramsey, State Sen. Mike Bell, State Sen. Randy McNally|4 Comments

A decade ago, in the spring of 2008, the Legislature created the Advisory Committee on Open Government to provide guidance to the newly created Office of Open Records Counsel. The Legislature also gave the committee the ability to review and provide written comments on proposed legislation related to open records and open meetings laws. But for most of the past 10 years, the group has barely met. Aside from its initial whirlwind participation in setting a “reasonable fee schedule” for copies of public records, committee discussions have been so infrequent as to cause some who have attended to wonder whether even those were worth the time. The open government committee [...]