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Mizuho Fukushima, state minister in charge of consumer affairs, who has jurisdiction over the law, has rightfully called on the consumers' committee associated with the agency to review the law. The law, in principle, bars organizations that possess or...
Tags: Personal Information Protection Law, Japan, Amagasaki, Privacy, Personally identifiable information, Freedom of the press, Public records, Disaster Accident, Personal identification, Freedom of expression, Law, Law Crime
Vancouver Public Schools and Clark County Fire & Rescue are among 37 agencies in Washington state to win new public records preservation grants announced on Thursday. Both will receive $10,000 to digitize and microfilm archival records through the Local...
Tags: public records, Vancouver, Grants, Philanthropy, Archive
They accuse a consultant of holding back records Attorney Andrea Mogensen said the consultant, Dan Barrett of California-based Barrett Sports Group, has failed to hand over e-mails about baseball that are public records. Barrett wrote Mogensen to tell...
Tags: Andrea Mogensen, Barrett Sports Group, Dan Barrett, public records, Baltimore Orioles, Steve DeMarsh, Sarasota, Sarasota Florida, Barrett, Sarasota County Florida, Surnames, Freedom of information in the United States, Citizens for Sunshine
The court was quick to say the new ruling does not require documents to be stored in an electronic format...But Justice Scott Bales, writing for the unanimous court, said if there is an electronic trail leading up to a final product, the public is entitled...
Approved an agreement for the creation of the Metropolitan Planning Organization between the Florida Department of Transportation, Lee County, the cities of Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Bonita Springs, Sanibel and the Town of Fort Myers Beach. � Approved...
Tags: Bonita Springs City Council, Bonita Beach Road, public records
The 1st District Court of Appeal has upheld a lower-court decision that documents in Florida State University's athletic-sanctions dispute with the National Collegiate Athletic Association are open records. A circuit-court judge ruled in August the documents...
Tags: Florida State University, NCAA, public records, 1st district, appeal court, court decision
Attorney General Bill McCollum said Tuesday his office will start keeping all BlackBerry messages and announced creation of a task force to bring Florida's public records laws into the text-messaging age. McCollum said recent controversy at the Public...
Tags: Florida Attorney General McCollum, Bill McCollum, public records, records law, France, Pin
The Associated Press and other media say they are public records...Thursday to stop a media lawsuit seeking access to documents on an academic cheating scandal at Florida State University under state public records laws...Florida State on its appeal of...
Tags: NCAA-Florida St., FSU, public records, Florida State University, Bobby Bowden, The Associated Press, football coach, coach bobby
Quinn's office could not be reached Sunday after sending out an advisory indicating his plan to "sign legislation regarding transparency" today in Chicago. Attorney General Lisa Madigan, whose office helped draft the Freedom of Information Act legislation,...
Tags: Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, John S. Quinn, John Quinn, quinn signing, Lisa Madigan, financial office, chief financial, Casella Waste Systems Inc., general lisa, public records
Officials say a man fled from an Idaho State Police trooper early Tuesday morning after a short pursuit. The driver of a gray Chrysler 300 refused to pull over immediately after an Idaho State Police trooper attempted to stop him at about 2:30 a.m. on...
Tags: open meeting, meeting law, public records, Idaho State Police