Greene County IDB argues citizens don’t have a right to hear deliberations at...
The County Industrial Development Board of Greeneville and Greene County is arguing in a lawsuit that the Open Meetings Act does not require that citizens be able to hear deliberations of a governing...
View ArticleRequest to appeal Vanderbilt records case aims to settle what police can...
The Tennessean, seven other media outlets, the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters and Tennessee Coalition for Open Government have filed a request with the Tennessee Supreme Court to appeal a lower...
View ArticleTCOG, SPJ-East TN: Arguments in Open Meetings case make a mockery of state’s...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 3, 2014 CONTACTS: Deborah Fisher, executive director, Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, fisher@tcog.info, (615) 602-4080; Michael T. Martinez, president of the...
View ArticleJudge allows public records lawsuit against Sumner County schools to proceed
Sumner County Judge Dee David Gay listens to arguments by attorney Kirk Clements, who says his client was wrongly denied access to public records. GALLATIN -- The Sumner County School Board lost the...
View ArticleNFOIC and SPJ combine war chests to fight for Freedom of Information
Joint press release from SPJ-NFOIC. (TCOG is a member of NFOIC): INDIANAPOLIS/Jefferson City - The Society of Professional Journalists and the National Freedom of Information Coalition are joining...
View ArticleJudge says Sumner County Schools denied public records request, but not willful
Sumner County Judge Dee David Gay said Thursday in preliminary findings that Sumner County Schools denied a public records request from open government advocate Ken Jakes, but that he heard no proof...
View ArticleJudge rules Sumner County Schools violated public records law, orders it to stop
GALLATIN -- Nearly 20 months after citizen Ken Jakes requested to see the Sumner County Schools public records policy, Sumner County Judge Dee Gay ruled today that the school district violated...
View ArticleReport: Fiscal impact of tax breaks kept confidential
Tom Humphrey reports in his Humphrey on the Hill blog about a report to the state's Fiscal Review Committee last week that highlights an inability to measure the cost of tax breaks because of a...
View ArticleOhio Supreme Court rules dash cam videos are public records
In ruling that rejects a blanket investigatory exemption for police records, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled last week that dash cam video is in general a public record, subject to redactions. The ruling...
View ArticlePrivate meetings on Chattanooga redistricting violated open meetings law,...
A redistricting committee made up of Chattanooga city councilmembers violated the open meetings act when it convened privately to make decisions and deliberate on the city's new voting district maps, a...
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