12/24/2010: UO’s Public Records Officer Liz Denecke and AD Rob Mullens are now using FERPA privacy rules to block the release of public records of an NCAA investigation of the Ducks. This is after the RG paid Denecke $367.29 for the records. They made the request September 14. On December…
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12/21/2010: Oregon has good public records and meetings laws. But the State’s Attorneys General who enforce these laws also provide legal representation to state agencies – agencies who often would much prefer to keep the records hidden. Dave Frohnmayer, ironically, was the best of the recent AGs at supporting the…
12/10/2010: The Connecting Eugene group recently made this appeal to the Senate Transparency Committee regarding UO’s delay responding to public records requests about the Trammmel Crow / ORI / Riverfront Research contracts, and UO’s refusal to grant a public interest fee waiver for the documents. Yesterday the committee met to address this complaint.…
The UO Senate Transparency Committee will meet with UO Public Records Officer Liz Denecke this Thursday 12/9/2010 at 11 AM, in the EMU Oak room. From the UO Senate Calendar: Senate Transparency Committee Date: Thu, 12/09/2010 – 11:00am Location: Oak Room in the EMU All meetings of the STC are…
12/6/2010: VCU’s president is in some serious trouble with his university’s board. The confidentiality agreements he made his staff sign are part of the problem. It’s a public university. Someday administrators will learn that transparency is the best policy for the long run. They sure haven’t learned it at UO…
10/31/2010: For our annual Halloween post we take a strong pro-robot position. We are serious.The UO President’s and Provost’s websites have recently added computer code that hides their content from Google and prevents public access to the archives maintained by the Internet Archive. Indexing and archiving services use robots –…
10/30/2010: Oregon Attorney General John Kroger and his Government Transparency Counsel Michael Kron have been making slow but steady progress improving Oregon’s public records situation – currently rated F. Earlier this month they released the 2010 Public Records Manual with some potentially important re-interpretations of the law. Now, in response…
10/26/2010: Back in April UO General Counsel Melinda Grier was fired for her office’s “deficient legal representation” involving, among other things, failure to deal properly with public records requests. Her mistakes cost UO millions. The Attorney General’s investigation alone cost $44,000. Three weeks ago Oregon AG John Kroger and his…
10/4/2010: I’ve talked to way too many reporters over the years. They would spit in the phone everytime UO’s public records boss Melinda Grier’s name was mentioned. Steve Duin of the Oregonian compared her operation to the KGB. It took a rebellion of sportswriters over the Bellotti payoff to get…
8/27/2010: I’m no law professor, but I hear this will lead to more openness on public records. Something to do with the economic incentives it creates. Not that I’m an economist. Ironically, the losing side of the case was argued by Melinda Grier’s husband Jerome Lidz, who was Oregon Solicitor…
6/9/2010: Still no job ad for a new General Counsel, but Lariviere has followed through on his promise to remove authority for public records requests from the GC’s office and there is an ad for the new job here. The new position will report directly to Lariviere. No salary is…
5/30/2010: over public records. UO has a press release here: A new Office of Public Records will be established at the University of Oregon June 1, in a key step toward fulfilling President Richard Lariviere’s pledge to make the university as responsive, open and transparent as possible. Brian Smith, the…
5/22/2010: Normally when you make a request to the Oregon DOJ for public records, you get a reply from DOJ Attorney Michael Kron, the DOJ’s Government Transparency Czar. So when I asked for the full report on the Bellotti investigation, I was a little surprised to get a denial from…
5/3/2010: To my knowledge this is the first time the Oregon DOJ has actually ordered UO public records officer Doug Park to produce public records. Often they will pressure UO, and you will get the records the day before the DOJ has to make a ruling (7 days from your…
4/28/2010: Many bloggers are wondering about their legal status in the wake of the seizure of the computers of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, the guy who blogged about the iphone HD. Is a blog a news organization? Was he a journalist? If so, apparently CA’s “shield law” says the gov’t…