Others ignored, or declined, requests to provide
ethics board records.
However, Halfmoon's town attorney, Lyn Murphy, declined to provide
any ethics board records.
Not exact matches
In some instances
ethics boards have had complaints or advisory opinions to investigate, but there are no
records on file of any business conducted.
When the Times Union requested
records of meeting agendas and minutes from Schenectady County, as it did for 20 other local municipalities that have
ethics boards, it provided only one brief agenda from 2013.
The state Committee on Open Government has said that while part, or all, of
ethics board investigations into complaints can be blacked out or kept confidential, meeting
records still must be made public.
Gross also said the
ethics board is in a difficult position as an agency that keeps the financial disclosure
records open for public inspection, while the
board and its staff are barred by the county
ethics law from disclosing confidential information.
(Kemble, New Paltz schools to discuss proposed new starting times (Jan. 22, 2017) Daily Freeman News; McMahon, New Paltz joins growing number of districts to consider starting school later (Jan. 5, 2017) N.Y. Upstate; Liu, New Paltz school district debates later start times (Jan. 4, 2016) Times Herald -
Record; Staff, New Paltz seeks feedback on later start times for school day (Oct. 15, 2016) Hudson Valley One; Nani, Hudson confidential: New Newburgh
ethics board to elect officers (Oct. 6, 2014) Times Herald -
Record.)
It might be readily assumed that open data, when it come to video
records of interviews and other observations, would be a non-starter with research
ethics boards.