Sentences with phrase «public disclosure laws»

Besieged by federal and state investigators, Mayor Bill de Blasio turned Nixonian Thursday and declared five of his closest outside confidants exempt from public disclosure laws when they advise him on running the city.

The Washington Attorney General is seeking at least $ 14 million from the food industry, alleging a trade association broke public disclosure laws by shielding the names of companies that contributed to a campaign against an initiative that would have required food makers to label products with GMOs.

Common Cause New York and other good government watchdogs say that while these entities perhaps help streamline projects, they also can legally avoid public bidding and public disclosure laws intended to serve as checks and balances of potential conflicts.

The university has rejected most of the requests citing various exemptions to the U.K. public disclosure law, which took effect in 2005.

The trial has exposed widespread use of private email addresses, and other means, in the Cuomo administration, presumably in an effort to shield communications from public disclosure laws.

SUNY Poly and state officials have argued that as a private non-profit, Fuller Road Management is not an official government agency and therefore technically exempt from government contracting and public disclosure laws.

The group's fiduciary agent, the Fund for the City of New York, also declined a FOIL request, saying it was a private non-profit not subject to the public disclosure law.

Lawmakers also agreed to expand the state's public disclosure law, requiring thousands of nonprofit groups that provide services to disabled and mentally ill people to make records of abuse and neglect public.

Castrejon also said most charters are small operations and simply don't have the resources to address the requirements of the public disclosure laws.

A recent analysis by The Salt Lake Tribune also found that Utah charter schools spend millions of dollars outsourcing administrative operations to private companies that are not subject to public disclosure laws.

The Bulldog rescue group «sought specific information as to the LSPCA definitions, policies, procedures, and outcomes related to the evaluation, adoption, and / or euthanasia of surrendered / stray animals in control of the LSPCA,» information it was refusing to willingly disclose under the claim that as a private agency, it was not subject to public disclosure laws.