Last March, through numerous
state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman formed a secret coalition of several other states» attorneys general (AGs) and prominent green activists to use the criminal justice system to target organizations that question the climate change agenda under fraud and racketeering laws.
Climate RICO: State AG's Attempt to Hide their Corrupt Crusade to Prosecute «Climate Deniers» by David McLaughlin, Strategic Research Supervisor Last March, through numerous
state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing -LSB-...]
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So close, in fact, that the Attorney General's office initially refused an
open records request to provide communications between Schneiderman and Cunningham, claiming that the conversations fell under an exception for «intra-agency
records» between
state employees.
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 Governm
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 Governm
Open Government.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Last year, the group filed an
open records request with the
state Department of Environmental Conservation seeking the MWBE study performed by the agency for a project in Buffalo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Schools in at least five
states refused to hand over information until forced to by
open -
records requests.
In New Jersey, the Asbury Park Press filed an
open records request for a report, but had to sue the
state to obtain a copy without redacted school names.
DPI released the letter Friday to the
State Journal in response to an
open records request made the same day.
This shakedown campaign, using the full power of law enforcement offices, recruited several other
state attorneys general — if only briefly, until the
open records requests started coming in — was launched with a press conference in New York on March 29, 2016 featuring Al Gore.
In Ohio and other
states, ALEC dodges lobby laws through corporate - funded «scholarship» programs that are thoroughly documented by the Center for Media and Democracy through
open records requests.