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November 30, 2018
Washington State
- Pierce County leaders take swift steps to provide previously unseen settlement payouts
- Editorial: Small town mayors school Washington legislators on open government
Outside Washington State
In the Courts
- Editorial: Lawsuit targeting newspaper highlights disturbing public-records trend – OR
- Judge weighs disclosure of Minnesota’s pitch to Amazon – MN
- Pittsburgh circuit judge rules city’s AmazonHQ2 proposal public record, demands release – PA
- Supreme Court: State pension data a matter of public record – NV
- Nonprofits file public records lawsuit over Google “Mega-Campus” property – CA
- State Supreme Court hears arguments over Jackson Hole Airport docs – WY
- District Judge to issue ruling in Leavenworth public records lawsuit over police video – KS
Laws, Legislation, and Policy
Transparency and Open Government
- Public Money, Private Records: Parts Of The Amazon Deal Concern Critics
- Sorry State of FOIA: More than 50 years later, a wheezing, arthritic artifact of more optimistic time
- Want a copy of that police video? Probably not going to get it in Pennsylvania – PA
Privacy, Security
- Study: Only 22 percent of information pros confident in their organization’s approach to privacy
- Who owns your data and who decides on access to it? – Int’l (Ireland)
- Nova Scotia says response to FOIPOP website data breach cost $84K – Int’l (Canada)
Information Governance, Records Management, and Archives
- Survey shows enterprises still face high risk from immature Information Governance processes
- NARA building in, not bolting on e-records standards – USA
- How to Determine the Feasibility of Digital Archives Projects
- Flooding in British Virgin Islands destroyed files on Indian tax dodgers – Int’l
- Amex files patent for Blockchain system to match images of receipts with stored records
- Israeli Archivists fume over Wikimedia Israel’s reposting of historical photos trove – Int’l
No Transparency News on November 16 or 23
November 9, 2018
Washington State
- Police reports tied to Western State Hospital patients are public records, judge rules
- MRSC: Walking on Murky Waters: The New PRA Exemption for Religious Affiliation
- Why Seattle accidentally sent activist the first 256 characters of 32 million internal emails
Outside Washington State
In the Courts
Laws, Legislation, and Policy
- Opinion: US Open Public Records Laws in Desperate Need for Unity – USA
- Is there an ideal public records law among the 50 states? – USA
- Lawmakers keep public records fees, eye compliance deadlines – WY
- Public Regulation Commission drops policy that delayed release of transcripts – NM
Transparency and Open Government
- Judging the judges: Legal experts call for more accountability, openness on complaints – USA
- FBI’s own guide to FOIA searches confirms why you should always appeal FBI FOIA searches – USA
- Industries Turn Freedom of Information Requests on Their Critics – USA
- Editorial: Transparency messy, but necessary – OR
- Will the next governor be open and transparent to the public? The record is not promising – CO
- Why isn’t government transparency a 2018 campaign issue? – OH
- Did a California union use open records law to intimidate workers? – CA
Fees, Costs, Abusive Requests
Information Governance, Records Management, and Archives
- Escondido City Council votes to destroy records, despite transparency concerns – CA
- U.S. archivists release Watergate report that could be possible ‘road map’ for Mueller – USA
- NARA, GSA team up to promote electronic records management – USA
November 2, 2018
Washington State
- Legislative Task Force on Public Records next meeting – Nov. 5, 2018
- JLARC: 2017 Complete Public Records Data available online
- Opinion: Police reports on assaults at Western State Hospital are in the public interest
- Editorial: Legislators’ shameful obtuseness about public records
- San Juan County outnumbers King County in public records requests
- Editorial: Lawmakers aren’t special, deserve no wiggle room in adhering to PRA
Outside Washington State
In the Courts
- Judge orders additional, potentially ‘embarrassing’ texts between council members released – OH
- Administration wins bid to keep proposed legislation documents secret – for now – OR
- Judge: FOIA isn’t battleship; Requesters don’t need to score direct hits to obtain documents – USA
- Appeals court sides with Gov. Rick Scott in public records dispute – FL
- Virginia judge says courts not subject to Freedom of Information Act requests – VA
Laws, Legislation, and Policy
Transparency and Open Government
- AG refuses to use email while doing attorney general’s work – MO
- New body to review 9 exemptions to freedom of information policy – International (Phillipines)
- Ephemeral Messaging, Discovery, and the Waymo-Uber Suit
Privacy and Security
Information Governance, Records Management and Archives
- The state Archives is moving into the digital age – HI
- Blog: Information Governance: The foundation of eDiscovery projects
- No More Room at National Archives – International (Iceland)