Sentences with phrase «open government laws»

EPIC provides expertise to shape strong privacy and open government laws at both the state and federal level.

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

«We really can't have this patchwork system anymore, where agencies get to decide on an ad hoc basis how privacy - protective they're going to be,» says Nathan Wessler, an ACLU staff attorney specializing in privacy topics who obtained the documents through open government laws.

But that essentially poses a loophole in the state's open government laws, which require that meetings be publicly advertised and offer only a handful of exemptions.

In an advisory opinion issued today, the head of the state agency charged with overseeing open government laws rejected NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's argument that some of his outside advisors were «agents of the city» and therefore exempt from the state's Freedom of Information Law.

There are numerous private nonprofit organizations and foundations across the state, many at SUNY schools, that contend they operate outside the state's open government laws, keeping their records out of reach from the public and journalists.

It's tested now, though, in the contention of those agencies that they're private organizations exempt from open government laws.

As for the Open Meetings Law, the state Legislature isn't covered by the open government laws.

Topics of discussion and presentations included an overview of the New York State Association of Counties; New York State Open Government Laws; Major Policy Issues Affecting Counties; Introduction to County Finance and Budget Issues; County Government Structure in New York State; Ethics in Government; Adopting Local Laws; and Role of the Clerks of Legislative Boards.

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But it also left the door open for people in certain areas to prepay their property taxes before it went into effect to get around the cap — according to the IRS, in areas where the property tax liability is assessed by the local government prior to the law going into effect.

He demanded not just the repeal of the sodomy law, but the opening of government jobs to known homosexuals - a radical idea at the time, and one that would remain far out of reach for many decades.

The federal government plans to spend millions of dollars less this year on advertising and outreach efforts to support the health law's open enrollment period, which starts Nov. 1.

Many investors worry about laws passed last year that increase the government's role in managing the pre-salt assets, closing them off from open bidding and mandating that Petrobras be the lead operator in exploiting them.

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, Federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.

I believe our current government would be open to finding a balance where a compromise makes for better laws.

If something is too big to fail, government should take it under administration, paying some minimal price to the current owners, firing all the executives without severance packages (set laws so that they have rights as in bankruptcy), stabilize and bail out the firm, and sell it on open market.

Treasury surpluses necessitate open market bond purchases «Under the terms of the law establishing the independent treasury,» Kinley describes, «the Government was expected to keep its own money and have no connection with the banking institutions of the country.»

Earlier this year, in an effort to stimulate the Italian economy, the Monti government enacted a law allowing shops across the country to open on Sundays.

But, no matter what your opinion is on actual marijuana usage, the fact that the DEA is open to revisiting a legal classification that many view as deeply flawed could be a sign that government officials are finally going to fix laws that have had serious affects on the society it is supposed to be serving and protecting.

I think if anything this country would be a mormon country since it was founded here... but since mythology is all myths lets all be happy we live in a country where people can believe what they wish and be open about it yet those beliefs based on nothing more then each persons personal «experiences» which are questionable at best have little impact on the government which dictates the laws we live by... WRONG!

According to Open Doors, local church leaders have raised their concerns about the law with the state government but have not received a response yet.

«However laudable the aim, we need to make sure that increasing access to government held information for those with a legitimate need to know does not also open the door to those who seek to buy, beguile or barter their way to information that is rightly denied to them in law.»

More laws awaiting approval will open up environmental protection zones and forests to construction, further intensifying the government's obsession to turn the country's environmental resources and urban heritage into profitable assets.

A year on from the introduction of new 24 - hour drinking laws, government figures suggest the expected «explosion» in bars and clubs open all hours has not happened.

A bill that would expand the Freedom of Information Law and the Open Meetings Law to government - affiliated non-profit organizations has cleared a committee hurdle on Tuesday.

Last week was Sunshine Week; an annual celebration of the benefits of open government and how to safeguard and expand upon current transparency laws.

We join the State Committee on Open Government's urgent call for New York State to seize the power of Information Technology to achieve the intent of the Freedom of Information Law.

Last month, Common Cause / NY joined with other government watchdog groups in calling on the NYS Board of Elections to reverse its 1996 Advisory Opinion in which it adopted an ill - advised interpretation of the campaign finance law and opened up the LLC loophole.

Without the trial, few of Howe's interactions with the Cuomo administration would be public — despite a slew of state laws and regulations designed to make government interactions with lobbyists, and conflicts of interest those interactions can create, open to the public.

On Monday, members of the New York Leadership for Accountable Government — a bipartisan coalition of business, civic, and philanthropic leaders dedicated to reforming elections laws in the state — delivered an open letter to the Senate Independent Democratic Conference.

The full text of FOIL and other information about the law is available at the New York State Committee on Open Government's website.

In other words, the French government owns Open Loop NYC, and they apparently have no regard for the law — let alone New Yorkers who are just trying to use the streets and get to work on time.

The NYS Committee on Open Government has formally reaffirmed that public records compiled in the normal course of government activity have to be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Law, even if those records are later the subjects of an ongoing criminal inveGovernment has formally reaffirmed that public records compiled in the normal course of government activity have to be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Law, even if those records are later the subjects of an ongoing criminal invegovernment activity have to be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Law, even if those records are later the subjects of an ongoing criminal investigation.

The State open records law requires that requested records be released within 20 Business Days, according to a guidance document provided by the New York State Committee on Open Governmopen records law requires that requested records be released within 20 Business Days, according to a guidance document provided by the New York State Committee on Open GovernmOpen Government.

A Federal law would either ignore one of the realities, or add at least a complexity level (if worded like «States with more than X % of Spanish speaking population must provide government forms both in Spanish and English»), and complexity is very bad in laws and opens the way for a lot of headaches (how is the % calculated?

Maybe, the Ashanti regional minister needs to be reminded that Ghana is a nation governed by laws and not on whims of self conceited government appointees who take instructions from political simpletons; may he be reminded once again that, through this act of indiscretion, he is effectively opening the government up for huge legal liabilities that may culminate in the payment of huge government debt.

The executive director of the state's Committee on Open Government who reporters and members of the public frequently turn to for his encyclopedic knowledge on freedom of information laws told the Capital Tonight team he's on vacation.

Take a walk down memory lane with open government Guru Bob Freeman, as we explore the founding of the state's freedom of information law and its implementation during the last 40 years.

Based upon the legislative intent to promote open government and public accountability for governmental actions, Freedom of Information Law provides a means of access to the records of government, with certain Exceptions that are enumerated in Public Officers Law § 87 (2).

FOIL is the most important law in ensuring government transparency, and strengthening it is essential to truly practice open government.»

Media organizations and good - government organizations are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a measure designed to bolster the state's open records law.

Meanwhile, the eurosceptic lobby group Open Europe highlighted a complex provision in the Lisbon treaty which allows the government to decide before June 2014 whether to continue to apply a raft of EU justice and policing laws past December 2014.

Bob Freeman, the longtime chair of the state's Committee on Open Government, told Gannett that the apparent stonewalling was «inconsistent with law.»

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said that the state's Freedom of Information Law is a «vital tool in realizing open government» and that it has «necessary exceptions to full access to government functions» that include individuals» personnel records which contain private information.

One bright spot for accountability in New York — though more an atavism than an innovation — is the state Committee on Open Government, created in 1974 pursuant to the newly created Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), which affords the public broad, though

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Robert Freeman, director of the state Committee on Open Government, agreed that DEC had not violated any laws.

Romine said advice from the state Committee on Open Government told him «you can not go into executive session for simply somebody casually mentioning or even threatening a law suit.

«I think Cuomo can learn from this trip that when the government takes over the economy, the results are disastrous,» GOP Chairman Ed Cox, whose father - in - law, President Richard Nixon, led the way to opening trade with Communist China in 1972, told The Post.

We then asked Freeman, of the state Committee on Open Government, for an advisory opinion as to whether Fort Schuyler was subject to the FOI Law.