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Providence police: Dept. clerk sold accident reports to chiropractor hunting for patients
By Amanda Milkovits Journal Staff Writer Providence Journal PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A clerk in the Providence Police Department’s records bureau is accused of illegally providing accident reports to a local chiropractor. Chief Hugh T. Clements Jr. said Rosmery Garcia, 36,...
read moreVT Supreme Court to decide if private emails/texts can be public record
By Morgan True, VTDigger.org MONTPELIER — Vermont Supreme Court justices peppered both sides with questions at a hearing Wednesday in a public records case with far-reaching consequences for government transparency. The central issue is the application of the state's...
read moreFirst Amendment expert: DPD public records dispute ‘raises significant suspicion’
Tony KovaleskiDenver7News 7:32 PM, Mar 17, 2017 3:36 PM, Mar 22, 2017 DENVER -- A top advocate for open records in Colorado says he supports the Denver district attorney’s decision to investigate whether Denver police administrators violated the state’s open records...
read morePortland crime victims wait for months for police reports due to backlog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi6fI7bvhiQ&t=19s PORTLAND, Ore. — Joe Trovato waited four months to receive his police report from Portland police. The process was almost more painful, he says, than the injuries he suffered after he was hit by a car while crossing...
read moreFL Bill would automatically seal arrest records
TALLAHASSEE BY STEVE CONTORNO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau May 5, 2017 More than 2.7 million criminal records will be sealed and the arrest records of hundreds of thousands of people will be concealed under a bill heading to Gov. Rick Scott’s desk. An open records...
read more400+ citations issued for public records problems
Jessie Balmert , [email protected] 12:06 a.m. ET March 12, 2017 COLUMBUS - What happened in that crash? How is City Council spending your money? Public documents detail the answers, but dozens of Ohio's officials, including those at 23 governments in...
read moreLegislation targets viewing of police body camera footage
By: Mike Vasilinda | Capitol News Service March 16, 2017 TALLAHASSEE, Fl.a (WCTV) -- A House committee voted 17 to 0 to allow police officers to view footage from their body cameras before submitting reports or responding to complaints. House Bill 305 would give local...
read moreNew efforts launched to change Colorado’s Open Records Act
Dailyprogress.com February 4, 2017 A Democratic senator is trying again to modernize Colorado's Open Records Act with a bill that would require government agencies to release public records in searchable data formats, like Excel spreadsheets, that are easy for the...
read moreArbitrator: Martin County broke public records law
tcpalm.com Feb, 27, 2017 The county has settled a portion of the larger Lake Point rock mine lawsuit as an arbitrator found that the county "failed to take public records requests seriously," court records show. Lake Point, just east of Lake Okeechobee, sued the...
read moreGot an RMS that isn’t used as it should be?
Edward Claughton, President PRI Management Group February 2017 Print .PDF Investment in a records management system can range from as low as $35,000 for a very small agency up to millions for a large one. So with this expenditure, why do so many agencies not use the...
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