Sentences with phrase «on open government»

The Index provides global insights on open government, aggregate country rankings, country profiles, and scores on four dimensions of government openness: publicized laws and government data, right to information, civic participation, and complaint mechanisms.

Our new report, the World Justice Project (WJP) Open Government Index 2015, uses representative population polling and surveys of in - country experts to shed light, for the first time, on open government practices in over 100 countries.

My colleague Bob Ambrogi has posted several times on open government advocate Carl Malamud's efforts to liberate all court documents from their password - protected chains.

«Devoted to legal issues and information on open government laws from Washington state and the rest of the country relevant to local governments.»

We at TreeHugger are huge fans of the work of TOPP, a non-profit focused on open government and better transportation; see more pictures of their very cool offices in the LTL portfolio under office category.

The Committee on Open Government has further information about FOIL and the Open Meetings Law available on its website, https://www.dos.ny.gov/coog/.

In an advisory opinion, the executive director of the state Committee on Open Government called this type of denial «unreasonable.»

Comments on open government, Opus 40, the state Open Meetings Law, support for a controversial housing development in Glasco brought some sharp exchanges in an otherwise low - key town candidates» forum Monday, sponsored by the League of Women Voters.

Robert Freeman, executive director of New York's committee on open government, said the records should be made available by City Hall.

That type of meeting is not considered a public meeting under the law, according to Kristin O'Neill, assistant director of the New York State Committee on Open Government.

In a Feb. 21 letter to the state Board of Elections, Robert J. Freeman, the Committee on Open Government's executive director, said those digital versions should be revealed under the state Freedom of Information Law.

Kristin O'Neill, assistant director with the state Committee on Open Government, agreed with Franck however, saying that the commission should have voted on how it would pay for the mailing in its public meeting.

Bills are pending in the Legislature toward that end — to require court - ordered attorney fees when agencies wrongly deny information; to allow judges to order officials to undergo training and report their FOIL compliance to the state Committee on Open Government; and to require them to file timely appeals — within 30 days — in cases like Cuomo v. Robinson.

That's not a consultant,» Robert Freeman, chair of the State Committee on Open Government, told the Observer in a phone interview.

He agrees that the state committee on open government has ruled that sometimes confidential information can be revealed.

Government watchdog groups — including the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, Common Cause New York, the League of Women Voters of New York State and the New York Public Interest Research Group — sent a complaint to the state's Committee on Open Government while the hearing was still under way on Tuesday afternoon, alleging violations of the state's Open Meetings Law.

«A meeting can not validly be held by telephone nor can voting occur over the phone,» said Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government.

That question will be at the center of the discussion tomorrow evening in Woodstock as the Executive Director of the New York State Committee on Open Government, Robert Freeman, speaks at the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center.

But Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, said the FOI Law protects trade secrets and other confidential business information from disclosure.

Internal back - and - forth messages — whether on paper or by email or PIN - to - PIN messaging — are not by law available to the public, said Robert Freeman, of the state Committee on Open Government.

The councilman added that Robert Freeman, the executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, has expressed support for the right of elected officials to speak freely on issues of interest to them and their constituents.

He says the bill would replace the state Committee on Open Government with a commission that has the power to bring enforcement actions, to fine elected officials who abuse the Open Meetings Law and compel the release of records of municipalities that do not abide by the Freedom of Information law.

Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, has said youthful - offender provisions do not apply when the charge involves a felony.

Good - government groups as well as the chairman of the state's Committee on Open Government have expressed concern that important records worthy of retention will be accidentally destroyed.

Last month, he vetoed two FOIL bills supported by reform groups and the Committee on Open Government, whose executive director recently said Cuomo's release of public information has been in many ways more limited than under any of his predecessors.

Robert Freeman, the longtime chairman of the state's Committee on Open Government, told Capital last week that he was concerned important or relevant documents would be accidentally discarded under the current policy.

WOODSTOCK >> Disputes involving the Woodstock Library brought state Committee on Open Government Executive Director Robert Freeman to the town Wednesday for a discussion of state law providing for open meetings and public access to records.

Per the New York Department of State's Committee on Open Government, «open meetings of an agency or authority shall be, to the extent practicable and within available funds, broadcast to the public and maintained as records of the agency or authority.»

Emails not marked for retention are automatically deleted after 90 days — a move that has drawn concern from good - government groups, as well as Robert Freeman, the longtime chair of the state's Committee on Open Government.

«It's hardly the highest standard when the response of the administration, in my opinion, is inconsistent with law,» said Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, which provides guidance on the state's Freedom of Information law.

The lawfulness of this meeting has now been confirmed by an independent source, Robert Freeman of the New York State Committee on Open Government, as quoted in the Buffalo News today.

In an advisory opinion sought by the Talk of the Sound and published on June 10, 2010, the New York State Committee on Open Government has informed the City Council of New Rochelle that the given reason for going into executive session is not valid.

Departments are allowed to extend the waiting time for records but only if it provides a «date certain» that the records will be released and also describes the reasons for requesting additional time, said Kristin O'Neill, assistant director of the state Committee on Open Government.

(Buffalo School Board Attorney Frank Miller) is talking about 50 years of decision from the state education department and we're talking about the statute, the committee on open government, their interpretation of the statue, and legislative intent.

Attorney Robert Freeman, executive director of the New York State Committee on Open Government, has been answering such questions for reporters and the general public from his office in Albany for more than 35 years.

We'll also talk with Robert Freeman, executive director of the New York State Committee on Open Government.

«We've talked to the Cuomo administration about this, and we simply disagree,» said Robert Freeman, the executive director of the Committee on Open Government.

But the policy was quickly questioned by lawmakers and the longtime chair of the state's Committee on Open Government.

ALBANY — Automatically deleting email after 90 days could lead to the accidental disposal of important records, the head of New York's Committee on Open Government told Capital, as the Cuomo administration presses ahead with its controversial new policy.

New York State Board of Elections commissioners have also broken ranks, with one of the four statewide officials agreeing with the advisory opinion by Bob Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, that the records should be released.

In February 2009, the City agreed to honor FOIL email requests, in April they refused, in May they agreed, in October they refused and just this month, after we filed yet another complaint with the New York State Committee on Open Government, the City flipped again.

Alain Kaloyeros and his associates at Fort Schuyler wouldn't budge when the state Committee on Open Government issued a legal opinion in March that rejected their position that they aren't subject to the FOI Law.

The proposals originated with the state's Committee on Open Government, whose executive director Robert Freeman recently argued that the release of public information has in many ways been limited more by Cuomo than any of his predecessors.

The state Committee on Open Government, citing case law, has opined that «merely repeat [ing] citations referenced in the initial denial of access» can not «be characterized as having «fully explained» the reasons for further denial.»

A Freedom of Information Law request for the video initially was rejected by the town, but Town Attorney Jason Kovacs said his recommendation changed after reading an opinion from state Committee on Open Government Executive Director Robert Freeman.

Last fall Bob Freeman, executive director of the state committee on open government, advised the village that it could charge for excessively detailed requests.

The ethics officials informed Woodstock Times that, pursuant to an opinion from Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, the board would vote to conduct the hearing in an executive session that would be closed to the public, including the press.

Robert Freeman, executive director of the New York State Committee on Open Government, said the redaction of notations about Mangano or any other official being out of the office on a particular day or week «would not be consistent with law.»

«We don't know who will evaluate the reason,» says Bob Freeman, Executive Director of New York State's Committee on Open Government, which according to its website, advises the public on «Freedom of Information, Open Meetings, and Personal Privacy Protection Laws.»

The director of the state Committee on Open Government said in an advisory opinion that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office and the state department of Housing and Community Renewal should not hold back from release otherwise public documents based merely on the contention that they might relate to an ongoing federal probe of upstate development deals.