Tag: open records

Pa. bills could require university police agencies, state-related institutions to disclose additional information
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One bill would require state-related universities — institutions that receive taxpayer dollars but get a majority of their funding from private donors — to create online databases disclosing budget, salary and contract information. The other bill would require campus police departments at all universities to comply with the same open records requirements as municipal police departments.

Connecticut joins consensus that school security videos are not confidential FERPA records

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Connecticut has joined at least two other states in ruling that school surveillance videos can be released as public records without violating the federal FERPA privacy statute. The ruling is a win for common sense and a setback for the U.S. Department of Education's FERPA literalism.

Relief for records requestors? Schools ordered to pay fines, attorney’s fees in open records lawsuits

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Violating state open records laws could actually cost you a lot of money, officials in Washington and Iowa have learned this month.First, the University of Washington was ordered last week to pay more than $720,000 in fines for withholding 12,000 pages of public records from a former professor who wanted to see whether she was wrongfully denied tenure at the University of Washington's Tacoma campus because of her gender or heritage.

TRANSPARENCY TUESDAY: Public records — delivered hot and oven-fresh… or they’re free?

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Next to waiting for the cable TV installer, there's not much more irritating for us first-worlders than waiting for the public records that never come.Many state open-records laws require an agency to respond to a request for public documents within three, five or 10 days.

TRANSPARENCY TUESDAY: “Privatized” government functions are putting the public’s records behind corporate barricades

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Records created, held or used by state agencies are (with limited exceptions) supposed to be readily available for the public to inspect, and that includes the records of public schools and colleges.