June 23, 2016 – AP by Mike Schneider and Curt Anderson About two dozen media organizations including The Associated Press, CNN and The New York Times filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking disclosure of city of Orlando phone recordings stemming from the Pulse nightclub shooting. The city, meanwhile, claimed in its own court filing that the […]
City of Orlando Files Suit Vs. AP: Seeks Legal Decision on Public Records
June 23, 2016 – City of Orlando Today, the City of Orlando, at the direction of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory relief to get guidance from the court on what public records, specifically 911 calls, related to the Pulse tragedy are releasable. The City has received voluminous public records requests from […]
‘Hire Some New Redactors’: How US Hinders Records Requests – Associated Press
April 11, 2016 – Jack Gillum As U.S. officials dealt with the fallout of the government’s once-secret “Cuban Twitter” program, they had one thing on their side: notorious delays in the federal Freedom of Information Act. The government didn’t have copies of the documents, which formed the basis of an Associated Press investigation detailing a […]
