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29 Oct, 2014

The law says “promptly” when it comes to public records requests

By |2014-10-29T09:27:48-05:00October 29, 2014|Categories: requests|Tags: , |1 Comment

A news reporter in Nashville called me recently when a public information officer for the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency refused to release a document that had been voted upon a few days earlier by a subcommittee of the public agency’s board of directors. The full board of directors was set to vote on it in less than a week. It was not secret document. It had no confidential information. It was an agreement that outlined how a developer would get $12.5 million in taxpayer money through tax-increment financing to help him build a $225 million skyscraper in downtown Nashville. The public information officer told the reporter that he could [...]

17 Apr, 2014

Lawsuit challenges Sumner Schools for not allowing records request by email

By |2014-04-17T15:34:29-05:00April 17, 2014|Categories: public records lawsuits Tennessee, requests|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Reporter Tena Lee with the Hendersonville Star News and The Tennessean reports on a new public records issue in Sumner County -- a challenge to a school board policy that requires a public records request to be made in person or by U.S. postal service. The article is reprinted here with permission: An open records advocate told by the Sumner County Board of Education that he had to submit requests either in person or via U.S. mail rather than by email filed a lawsuit in Sumner County Chancery Court April 9 challenging the board's practice. Ken Jakes, a resident of Joelton, Tenn., emailed the board of education's community relations supervisor, Jeremy [...]

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