12/26/2011: Download here. News piece here. Sunshine as Disinfectant: The Effect of State Freedom of Information Act Laws on Public Corruption Adriana S. Cordis and Patrick L. Warren August 2, 2011 Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of open government provisions on public corruption in the United States. Specifically, it…
Posts tagged as “Public Records”
11/21/2011: I’d always wondered why reporters were spending so much time on the child rape coverup and so little time on the money that Joe Paterno and his crew were raking in. It turns out this was because Penn State had secured an exemption to the Pennsylvania public records law,…
10/21/2011: It’s slightly more than a year since she was appointed as UO’s first Public Records Officer by President Lariviere, in what was billed as an effort to improve trust and transparency between the UO administration and the UO community and public after the Bellotti/Grier debacle. From the ODE article:…
10/20/2011: From Tamar Lewin in today’s times, story here: “This case presents the increasingly familiar tale of a public university that, embarrassed by its own wrongdoing, cries ‘student privacy’ in an attempt to frustrate public disclosure of information reflecting unflatteringly on the conduct of the university’s administrators,” the brief said.…
10/18/2011: Big news politically. Cites health concerns. I hope he will make part of his political legacy for his last year a toughening up on his interpretation of Oregon public records law. More here.
9/29/2011: Why is the academic side of UO paying “The Cleaner” to defend Chip Kelly in an NCAA investigation? Shouldn’t the athletic department pay for this? From Ken Goe in the Oregonian: The University of Oregon’s general counsel’s office and athletic department are sharing the cost for the specialty law…
9/22/2011: From student reporter Thomas Bradley at Ohio State: On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Ohio ordered the university to submit unredacted documents that are the subject of a lawsuit ESPN Inc., filed against OSU on July 11. ESPN sued OSU for withholding records that the sports network viewed as…
9/22/2011: Long time readers know that frustrations with getting public records from UO were one of the reasons I started this blog. We’ve made some progress with public records here at UO in the last week. The UO website now mentions a $200 fee waiver for public interest requests. This…
9/15/2011: Liz Denecke of the UO Public Records Office has agreed to waive the first $200 in fees for “public interest” records requests. This will include requests from the press, and new media such as UO Matters. The new policy should be announced at their website here shortly and it…
8/18/2011: At some point, this transparency stuff starts to become a movement. First wikileaks, now this, on the Vatican’s website – in Latin, of course: The Oregonian has the sad explanation. Meanwhile the UO public records office still hasn’t figured out how to post the coaches’ contracts on dropbox. Drag and drop Liz, the…
8/14/2011: More on this later, meanwhile here is the 8/27/2011 letter from Oregonian editor Peter Bhatia on public records access, with President Lariviere’s response.
7/24/2011: This well researched ODE article by Thomas Kyle-Milward brings back a few memories. But these days UO Matters seldom goes bottoms up, except for the occasional bag of bagels, and then only if it’s on the top. Back problems. Of course, I do check the Johnson Hall paper recycling…
6/17/2011: From Nigel Jaquiss at WWeek: “We have made mistakes in a small number of high profile cases,” Kroger said in a statement. “This week, I learned that in addition to these errors, Chief Counsel Riddell had deleted a large number of government e-mails under the mistaken belief that they…
1/20/2011: This will make it tougher for the UO administration and Randy Geller and Liz Denecke to hide information from the public. RG story by David Steves here. The DOJ summary of the legislation is here. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJan. 19, 2011 Contact:Tony [email protected] ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN KROGER UNVEILS GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY…
1/18/2011: This decision will focus some official attention on the benefits of government transparency: Judge rules commissioners violated Oregon’s public meetings lawBy Karen McCowan The Register-Guard Published: Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011 01:15PM Lane County Commissioners Rob Handy and Pete Sorenson willfully violated Oregon’s public meetings law in the course of…