Last month's column dealt with the philosophy behind open meetings laws and why public officials should conduct the public's business in public, not in private. Open meetings laws like the federal ...
On Monday, Nov. 2, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club — a case that will define the bounds of the deliberative process privilege under the ...
Notwithstanding the Freedom of Information Act’s primary goal of promoting transparency in government decision-making, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled by a 7-to-2 vote that the public policy of ...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s April 29, 2021, decision in a Right-to-Know Law (the “RTKL”) case has broad ramifications in matters where a state or local governmental agency has contracted with a ...
In a decision issued December 21, 2015 (Caldecott v. Superior Court of Orange County (Newport- Mesa Unified School District)), the California Court of Appeal ruled that a former school district ...
Update: In a 7-2 ruling issued on March 4, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Court held that “The deliberative process ...
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As he pushed earlier this year to curtail the access Louisiana residents have to public records, Gov. Jeff Landry drew a culinary analogy, saying restaurant patrons don’t need to see where dinner ...
Earlier this month, Gov. Bill Lee's administration denied access to documents recommendations made by 22 state agencies on how to improve service in Tennessee's rural areas. The administration denied ...
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