Sentences with phrase «state open records law»

Hammond, who says he battled TAMU for months to gain access to documents under a state open records law, agrees on one point with Davis: «I think that there are many other schools that have issues like Texas A&M.»

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 Government.

Emails WEDC released to the Wisconsin State Journal under the state open records law show that WMC, the state's largest business lobby, alerted WEDC in June that other states were seeking to lure Kraft Heinz facilities out of Wisconsin.

Last month activists opposed to genetically modified food rattled academic scientists working in that field by submitting requests for their correspondence under state open records laws.

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The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records on Thursday gave the city 30 days to release their bid to Megan Shannon, a citizen who asked for the information in January under the state's Right - to - Know Law.

In the few states that have open adoption records, should this party indicate that he or she does not want to be contacted, by law, the information would not be given out.

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

All other states have some sort of open records law on the books, but few have an agency quite like COG, which functions in part as a kind of public help desk.

Using records obtained under the state Freedom of Information Law, state agency reports and the state's open data portal, they built a database that tracked some 16,000 subsidy deals involving 12 of the state's largest economic development programs and locally controlled industrial development agencies.

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.

College officials have been careful to hide it from the public record, so it can not be requested through the state's open records laws.

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The bills include A. 5873 / S.4284, which will ensure that public meetings are held in facilities that are able to accommodate members of the public; A. 10093 / S.3195, which will require State and local governments to establish rules to accommodate photographs, audio or video recording of open meetings; and A. 10196 / S.7054, which will add to the remedies a court can impose when it finds a violation of the Open Meetings open meetings; and A. 10196 / S.7054, which will add to the remedies a court can impose when it finds a violation of the Open Meetings Open Meetings Law.

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The legislation would make the Authority subject to open public record laws of both states, require that its meetings be open to the public, establish audit and finance committees within the body, and mandate an annual report by an independent auditor that gets sent to the governor, state comptroller and each state's Legislature.

Sen. Brad Hoylman of Manhattan has asked the state Committee on Open Government for a formal opinion on the Senate's adoption this week of chamber rules that bar the use of cellphones as recording devices — a prohibition that Hoylman strongly suspects is a violation of state Open Meetings Law.

The department will also revise its website to include a list of records it maintains and links to the state Committee on Open Government website and relevant provisions of the state Public Officers Law, and will produce a memorandum to «set forth procedures for receiving and responding» to Freedom of Information requests and appeals and providing electronic versions of records.

-LSB-...] In its original story publishing the map, the News Journal cited concerns about the Sandy Hook massacre and calls by residents to broaden the state's open - records law further.

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.

Justice Patrick McGrath on July 6 rejected the argument from Cuomo's lawyers that various records had been «complied for law enforcement purposes» and therefore were not subject to the state's open records law.

It's unclear if the new government - run board will be subject to the state's open records laws, Cuomo said.

The state's toothless open - meetings laws, which exempt the state legislature, took another beating last week as Ulster election commissioners refused to allow video and recording equipment inside the room where the ballots were counted.

Connellan had a part - time security job for 17 years with the state banking agency, making a total of about $ 317,461 over those years — an average of $ 18,674 a year, according to records from the state obtained by Syracuse.com under an open records law request.

Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota said his office's investigations and reviews of records from five towns show state labor law is too complex and open to interpretation.

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 recoOpen Government Executive Director Robert Freeman to the town Wednesday for a discussion of state law providing for open meetings and public access to recoopen meetings and public access to records.

From Aug. 1 through Oct. 23, when the Center filed requests under the state's open records law, Sen. Mary Lazich, R - New Berlin, who chairs a committee to which the legislation is assigned, received a little more than 200 contacts — emails, plus a few calls and letters — staking out positions on the bills.

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 lLaw and compel the release of records of municipalities that do not abide by the Freedom of Information lawlaw.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI) asked Pruitt about the Oklahoma Attorney General's office lack of response to an open records request, made under state law, for emails between his office and fossil fuel companies it regulated.

The bill also would have insisted that charter schools be subject to the state's laws involving conflict of interest, open meetings and open records.

For instance, voucher schools do not have to follow the state's open meetings and records law.

UW System spokesperson David Giroux said the system denied the open records request for the syllabi because the documents are the protected by state copyright laws because they are the intellectual property of the professors who draft them.

AB 913, by Assemblyman Ed Chau, D - Monterey Park, sponsored by the California School Boards Association and the California Teachers Association, calls for charter schools to meet the mandates of the state's landmark open meeting laws - the Brown Act and Bagley - Keene Act - as well as the California Public Records Act.

The Wisconsin State Journal obtained Humphries» consulting firm's contract and emails about his resignation under the state's open recordsState Journal obtained Humphries» consulting firm's contract and emails about his resignation under the state's open recordsstate's open records law.

The data from the Illinois State Board of Education, obtained under open records laws, are the most recent available that could be linked to college entrance exam scores.

These measures include background checks, teacher licensure, similar graduation requirements, building inspections, and adherence to the state's open records law.

Facing significant legal and political exposure over the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the district has tried to keep information from the public and put out untrue and misleading statements, frustrating parents who say this is the time for maximum transparency... It flatly refused to issue any records regarding the shooting to the news media, in a possible violation of the state's open - records law.

These laws exist to ensure that state government (including all public agencies, public schools, and other state run entities) will provide open access to the records and information possessed by the state.

Yesterday, the State Department of Education provided town - specific results to each local superintendent of schools but refused to release the statewide results and threatened local officials that they could not publicly discuss the results — in direct violation of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act — because the results were «embargoed» — a concept that is not allowed under Connecticut's open record law.

For that reason, USA TODAY used open - records laws to secure the test scores of millions of individual students from four states — Ohio, Michigan, Florida and Arizona — and Washington, D.C., then analyzed them to determine long - term trends for those individuals.

The decades - old provision of the state's open records law is now troubling some Democratic lawmakers after voucher school lobbying group School Choice Wisconsin sought student information from about 30 Wisconsin school districts for marketing purposes.

The Reader Privacy Act updates state law to safeguard the free exchange of ideas and open discourse by ensuring that government and third parties can not access Californians» reading records without proper justification.

They say that «documents obtained through Georgia's Open Records law show that over a period of 60 days this summer, 551 puppies were shipped from out - of - state facilities to Georgia pet stores.

The Humane Society of the United States — which in March sued the USDA, claiming it has failed to release breeding - kennel inspection reports in violation of open - records law — said the agency should instead do a better job of regulating breeders.

It is interesting to note that in California Gov. Jerry «Moonbeam» Brown pushed legislative reform of the state's environmental law (CEQA) to fast track and streamline concentrated solar farm installations without regard for loss of bird life and the habitat the birds live on (e.g. insects); and more recently has fast tracked the installation of expensive batteries on its electric grid in record time without the usual delays for environmental clearances (see: «A Big Test for Big Batteries», New York Times, Jan. 14, 2017) but apparently did not even have on a back burner a project to fix the open and notorious Oroville Dam spillway defects and deficiencies.