Missouri is refusing to release forced-resignation letter of DHSS head, claiming unlikely Missouri Sunshine Law exemption. That same former official *might* have been forced to leave due to his agency bungling the Missouri Sunshine case we brought and won.
The Missouri health director’s resignation letter is a closed under an exception to the Sunshine Law that permits the closure of “individually identifiable personnel records.”
But the exception is permissive; it doesn’t require them to be closed. https://www.newstribune.com/news/opinion/story/2021/may/02/our-opinion-why-was-missouris-health-director-replaced/869574/
But in general, #FOIA requesters should not have to meet higher standards for requests for emails than they would for requests for paper records. The burden should be on agencies to have more effective software and policies allowing FOIA officer access to all agency e-records
Livestreaming now: The Office of Government Information Services hosts the #FOIA office of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (#CDC) for a deep dive into the search process for agency-wide electronic records.
https://youtu.be/0o5oKhARBN4
@FOIA_Ombuds @CDCgov #opengov
If you like what the mere threat of a lawsuit and a tiny bit of social media publicity can do for records access, you are going to loooove what an actual FOIA lawsuit and whole lot of mainstream media publicity are going to do for records access. 😉
Looks like some Fold3 records have finally made their way to NARA's website—only a few years late 🙄
Thanks @ReclaimTheRecs!
Looks like some Fold3 records have finally made their way to NARA's website—only a few years late 🙄
Thanks @ReclaimTheRecs!
He was controversial for years.
Then a few days ago, the news broke nationwide about his agency's law-breaking costing Missouri taxpayers $138,000+ in our Sunshine Law case.
And it kinda looks like that was the final straw that broke the camel's back...
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article250811419.html
“Our Opinion: State health department should be ashamed
It’s maddening when governmental agencies try to hide public information or demand a ransom to access it.”
😌
https://www.newstribune.com/news/opinion/story/2021/apr/18/our-opinion-state-health-department-should-be-ashamed/867732/
Can you guess? #recordsaccess Thank you @ReclaimTheRecs! It’s a start. https://twitter.com/ReclaimTheRecs/status/1382890256563728384
You all get three guesses as to why the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) *finally* released this dataset from their own Catalog as a data dump, and even more importantly *why now*.
Gosh, whatever could that impetus be? 😄
https://twitter.com/USNatArchives/status/1382766605638250498
@ReclaimTheRecs digging into more records for the #Genealogist https://twitter.com/ReclaimTheRecs/status/1382005067537031171
@aramsark @kevinbaker Hi. You might enjoy the FOIA lawsuit we're about to launch.
https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/records-request/27/
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