Sentences with phrase «withhold public documents»

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Other than withholding them from the public, it is hard to imagine what the SEC has been doing with the Walmart Documents for over 40 months.

As with refusing interviews, withholding documents represents an attempt to make it harder for reporters to do their jobs to inform the public.

In the Arizona case, which dates to 2011, the E&E Legal Institute requested the public disclosure of all email files to or from Hughes and Overpeck, a call that the university answered by releasing some documents and withholding 1,700 others that the university deemed «in the best interest of the state» to shield from public disclosure.

The exercise was a reaction to several celebrated incidents during the Bush Administration in which scientists had been muzzled, documents altered, and information withheld from the public.

The report contains news stories, criminal records, and other documents to detail abuses such as charter school operators embezzling funds, using tax dollars to illegally support other, non-educational businesses, taking public dollars for services they didn't provide, inflating their enrollment numbers to boost revenues, and putting children in potential danger by foregoing safety regulations or withholding services.

The department has claimed that the results are exempt because they are preliminary data and «the public interest in withhold documents outweighs the public interest in disclosure.»

These drafts are exempt if «the public agency has determined that the public interest in withholding such documents clearly outweighs the public interest in disclosure.»

I would say it's pretty odd that the State of Alaska could withhold documents from the public about a commission that will go a long way towards influencing its policies on energy, environment, property rights, taxes, the state budget, land use, education, and just about every other public policy area.

I suppose there are exceptions in the law for LLNL and other government agencies to withhold documents and emails from the public for national security purposes.

Deniers pounced on a few remarks in the emails that appeared to suggest scientists had withheld documents the public had sought under a freedom of information request.

The Lord Justices pointed out that there was a well - established process for dealing with government requests to withhold documents on national security grounds: judges must weigh the public interest which demands that the evidence be withheld against the public interest in open justice, and if «the former public interest is held to outweigh the latter, the evidence can not in any circumstances be admitted.»

However, it concluded that the University violated the public records law because it had not described the withheld documents sufficiently.