Last week, the Daily Californian at the University of California-Berkeley dropped a bombshell report: about one third of University of California system employees found to be in violation of sexual misconduct policy between 2013 and 2016 were still present on UC campuses.
Tag: open records
California Supreme Court opens personal communications on public matters to open records requests
The California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously that employee writings conducted about public business on personal accounts are subject to the state Open Records Act.
Experts say Indiana’s private university police transparency law has no teeth
Margaret Hynds, editor in chief of the Notre Dame Observer, noticed last November that HB 1019, a law former Indiana governor Mike Pence signed, classified private university police departments as public agencies.
Ohio reporter successfully gains university presidential records release through claims court
A reporter for The Athens News has successfully obtained documents from Ohio University concerning the semifinal candidates for the university presidency after filing a complaint with the Ohio Court of Claims.
Several state legislatures considering updates to open records laws
A mixture of positive and negative changes to state open records laws have slowly been making their way through state legislatures in the past few weeks.
Update: Kentucky open records clash gains new participants at Western Kentucky University
The battle over Title IX records in Kentucky just got bigger, as Western Kentucky University and the College Heights Herald are joining the fight.
The Kentucky Kernel’s open records battle has multiple fronts
The Kentucky Kernel’s strategy of requesting records from multiple state universities seems to be paying off, if rulings at Kentucky State University and Western Kentucky University this week are any indication.
Texas court punts on issuing decisive FERPA ruling
Days before the end of his tenure as a regent of the University of Texas, Wallace L. Hall saw his request for documents related to a university scandal denied by the Texas Supreme Court.
North Dakota introduces bill to exempt university leadership applicants from open records law
A new House bill could make the applications for top positions in North Dakota’s state universities exempt from the open records law.
Newspaper files complaint against Ohio University over presidential search records
A reporter for The Athens News has filed a complaint in the Ohio Court of Claims after a request for background information about the semifinal candidates for the Ohio University presidency was ignored for over a month.