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Seattle Times watchdog waits 11 months for police’s purposefully withheld memo
Seattle Times reporter Mike Carter (courtesy of Mike Carter) Mike Carter is proud to call himself a watchdog at The Seattle Times. After all, they’re an endangered breed in U.S. newsrooms, where tight...
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New York shield law may fend off subpoena A Fox News reporter is seeking protection from being forced to reveal her sources in Colorado court under New York’s shield law, according to the Reporters...
View ArticleFOI Update: China praises ‘handsome’ hero, condemns U.S. ‘double-standard’
Whistle-blower Edward Snowden might be getting flack from Washington about his NSA surveillance exposure, but in China he’s a “handsome” hero, ABC News reports. Many Chinese have taken to China’s...
View ArticleFOI Daily Dose: More sunshine in Florida, NY shield law saves reporter from...
More Sunshine in the Sunshine State There’s a little more sunshine in the Sunshine State after the 2013 legislative session passed an unusually high number of bills supported by Florida’s First...
View ArticleFOI Daily Dose: Fighting for access to federally funded research, California...
EFF fights for access to federally funded research The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling all free information advocates to stand against major publishers they say are working to limit...
View ArticleFOI Daily Dose: California likely limiting open records access, Ohio could...
California likely limiting open records access California lawmakers clashed June 19 over changes to the state’s open records laws slipped into the back pocket of the state budget bill earlier this...
View ArticleFOI Daily Dose: Ohio newspapers restrictions on open government, AP president...
Ohio newspapers stand against restrictions on open government, records The Ohio Newspapers Association (ONA) is standing against more than half a dozen bills pending in the legislature that place more...
View ArticleFOI Daily Dose: Privacy exemption limits most FOIA requests
Privacy is the most frequently cited exemption for denying Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a study by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University School of...
View ArticleFOI Daily Dose: NJ Senate votes on transparency protections; Philadelphia...
New Jersey Senate votes on open records, open meetings protections The New Jersey Press Association is supporting two measures for a state Senate vote this week that would offer greater protections for...
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Student journalists at Ohio university fight for access to records they once had
Evan Matsumoto, left, manages the Tan & Cardinal’s website. Lindsay Paulsen is the newspaper’s print production editor. (Photo provided by Hillary Warren) Student reporters at Otterbein University...
View ArticleFOI Daily Dose: California reverses ruling on public records, New Mexico open...
California to reverse ruling on public records Pressure from reporters and open government advocates helped reverse legislation in California this week that threatened to make key parts of the state’s...
View ArticleFOI Daily Dose: NSA denies reporter’s FOIA request, open-data company to...
NSA denies ProPublica reporter’s FOIA request for his own records Jeff Larson of ProPublica filed a freedom of information request with the National Security Agency (NSA) asking for any personal data...
View ArticleFOI Daily Dose: ‘Transparent’ federal agency collects, analyzes, shares U.S....
Judicial Watch found a federal agency created on principles of transparency is spending millions of dollars to collect and analyze U.S. financial transactions without a warrant. In a news release June...
View ArticlePittsburgh Catholic diocese sues feds for ‘patently uncooperative’ response...
Several months after the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh filed a freedom of information request with the federal government to learn how mandatory contraceptive coverage became part of the new...
View ArticleHappy FOI-th of July!
This Independence Day marks the 47th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act being signed into federal law, establishing our right to open records and meetings. FOIA puts power in the hands of...
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Minnesota county takes ‘bold step’ to make free information free of charge
Board members of Minnesota’s Winona County agreed last week to make all government data free of charge in a “bold step toward true transparency,” according to the Winona Post. The board plans to adopt...
View ArticleFOI Daily Dose: Virginia adds FOIA exemptions; Michigan columnist says...
Virginia adds FOIA exemptions Virginia’s General Assembly added new exemptions and language to the state’s Freedom of Information Act on July 1, making information more difficult to obtain, according...
View ArticleNY Daily News reports special operations commander secretly moved Osama bin...
News organizations are calling out the nation’s top special operations commander for a secret move they say sidesteps federal rules and perhaps the Freedom of Information Act, as well, according to New...
View ArticleFOI Daily Dose: Connecticut lawmakers miss deadline on FOIA dispute involving...
When Connecticut lawmakers passed a blanket ban in June preventing the release of photos or videos of homicide victims’ bodies, they deliberated secretly and worked quickly under pressure from families...
View ArticleFOI Daily Dose: California Supreme Court rules digital maps not exempt from...
California’s Supreme Court granted free public access to digital maps of Orange County once exempt as computer software and only available to business groups, according to Voice of OC. The Sierra Club...
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