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Mississippi to shorten request response time
I see the Mississippi Legislature passed a bill to shorten the amount of time an agency has to respond to a records request, from 14 days to seven days (see story). “Right now it’s 14 days, two weeks;...
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Create ‘Doc Squad’ in your state
ProPublica is creating a cool “Reporting Network Doc Squad” to establish people around the country who can request records from state governments as needed. This is particularly important because five...
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Rav rave: Get copies of company complaints to FTC
I rave about Michael Ravnitzky (mikerav@verizon.net). He’s gathered thousands of federal records and knows his way around FOIA probably more than anyone else. He recently posted tips on the FOI...
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They Didn’t Ask for Paper….
The Anniston City Council today plans to discuss taking legal action to collect $1,855.40 from The Anniston Star for open records the newspaper requested, but never received in the form requested. “If...
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An Update to the Charlotte Observer request…
They dropped it, citing the uproar….I am glad. These non-journalistic flights of fancy promise more blowback to FOI than scrutiny of government. cd Filed under: 3. Access law, 5. Request strategies
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Don’t Miss This Online Chat Opportunity!
Image via CrunchBase Sunshine Review leads these really great weekly #FOIAchat discussions on Twitter on freedom of information act issues. Our turnout includes open government advocates, public...
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The New York Times weighs in on the Wisconsin email issue…
Nothing here to advance the story, but love the quote from Bill Lueders of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council: “I’m pleased to see the Republicans making use of the open records law because...
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The UW-Madison Response: Absolutely Fascinating
Well, the UNiversity of Madison-Wisconsin complied with the request for a noted history professor’s e-mails — sort of, kind of. Here is the Chancellor’s message to the campus: And here is the official...
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A Much More Supportive View of the Cronon FOI Response
Image via Wikipedia The New Yorker weighs in with a laudatory post about the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s response to the FOI request. As I wrote in an earlier post, I think the response created...
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$18,500 for three months’ worth of e-mails?
A frequent tactic in the FOI game is the eye-popping fee for redaction and records preparation. I’d like to say this is an unusual price tag, but I’ve run across several similar stories in the past few...
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