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Attorney general’s office to provide KOMA and KORA training December 6, 2019
Attorney general’s office to provide KOMA and KORA training The Office of Attorney General Derek Schmidt and The Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government will provide local public training on open meetings and open records later this month. The training is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Dec. 17 in Heritage Hall of the Tony’s Pizza Events […]
South metro area law enforcement agencies blocking radio traffic December 5, 2019
South metro area law enforcement agencies blocking radio traffic As of the early morning hours on Dec. 2, Douglas County law enforcement radios faded from public access. Channels once available for anyone to hear now broadcast a stream of garbled talk and indistinguishable chatter that sporadically break up stretches of otherwise silent airwaves. The agencies' […]
OPRA needs to be re-examined, according to local governments December 4, 2019
OPRA needs to be re-examined, according to local governments Local governments say OPRA is “fraught with abuse and misuse.” Bordentown City, Florence, Willingboro are among municipalities asking for OPRA reform. Bordentown City, Florence and Willingboro are among the local governments calling for a re-examination of the Open Public Records Act. Better known as OPRA, the act […]
Letter: Elected officials should be more transparent November 22, 2019
Letter: Elected officials should be more transparent Why aren’t candidates for local municipal offices required to fill out the N.C. State Ethics Commission’s statement of economic interest disclosure forms? It should be a common-sense move by the General Assembly to extend this requirement to local municipal officeholders. Local officeholders make the financial decisions that are […]
Georgia ethics commission files lawsuit over Abrams emails November 21, 2019
Georgia ethics commission files lawsuit over Abrams emails ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia ethics commission filed a lawsuit Friday seeking communications between Democrat Stacey Abrams’ unsuccessful 2018 campaign for governor and several third-party organizations. But Abrams’ former campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo said they’ve already turned over thousands of financial records. She called the investigation politically […]
Denver’s open records database went dark for days, unannounced, and just reappeared November 20, 2019
Denver’s open records database went dark for days, unannounced, and just reappeared Millions of publicly available data points about Denver’s government disappeared last Friday after the website that hosted them went dark. The city’s open data catalog reappeared Tuesday, apparently after Arvada’s government renewed the domain name. The database is a one-stop shop for reams […]

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