The city’s approved legislative priorities include previously addressed public records reform, opening the possibility for more movement. Plant City Observer by Daniel Figueroa December 8, 2017 Plant City could keep active a statewide conversation on reforming public records laws, including the possibility of “enforcement mechanisms” to prevent profit-driven lawsuits. In its current list of commission-approved […]
MuckRock community successfully completes its 10,000th public records request
Since 2010, MuckRock requesters have fought for transparency one request at a time by MuckRock’s Michael Morisy June 7, 2017 MuckRock users come from different walks of life and all parts of the country, united in the idea that government by the people must be a government that is open to the people. Thanks to […]
‘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 […]
