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13 Mar, 2017

New public records study: Problems with access and how to improve

By |2020-11-19T12:27:43-06:00March 13, 2017|Categories: Public Records|Tags: , , , |1 Comment

A new public records study commissioned by the Knight Foundation and released today during Sunshine Week outlines key problems seen by freedom of information experts in access to public records across the country. The study goes into depth about barriers and synthesizes potential solutions to make open government laws work as intended and preserve the citizenry's ability to get information. The study was based on a survey and interviews with 336 freedom of information experts -- from journalists to records custodians -- and conducted by David Cuillier with the University of Arizona School of Journalism. About half of the experts surveyed online reported that access to state and local records had gotten [...]

19 Jan, 2015

Friedmann seeks appeal of public records request case on in-person appearance requirement

By |2019-09-11T18:53:20-05:00January 19, 2015|Categories: requests|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Alex Friedmann, managing editor of Prison Legal News, has filed a request to appeal a Marshall County chancery court ruling last year that ordered release of records he requested, but declined to rule that one of his requests was denied because he would not appear in person to make the request. Friedmann began his request Feb. 3, 2014, with a letter to the Marshall County Sheriff's Department requesting disclosures of jail policies concerning inmate mail, inmate grievance policy, inmate medical care policies, whether the jail maintains a formulatory of medications for inmates, a copy of the jail's phone service contract, a contingency request if the jail is paid a commission on prisoner [...]

18 Mar, 2014

Judge awards $31K to Murfreesboro citizen in open records lawsuit

By |2020-11-19T12:17:38-06:00March 18, 2014|Categories: public records lawsuits Tennessee, schools|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

  Tracy Pack filed an open records lawsuit more than three years ago after he had requested records under the Tennessee Public Records Act and received what he suspected was an incomplete response. He told The Murfreesboro Post that he "just wanted to know whether county funds were being spent properly." Pack had requested copies of checks written by former principal Chontel Bridgeman on a Homer Pittard Campus School checking account. Fox 17 WZTV Nashville interviewed orthodontist Tracy Pack who sued the Rutherford County school board. Click on the photo to hear what Pack had to say. The award is the second time in recent months in which the [...]

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