7/4/2012. Jefferson only had a page to work with. He must have thought this was important: To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. … He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole…
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The famed Pulitzer prize winning historian of the civil rights movement has turned his attention to college sports and the NCAA hiring cartel. His 3 point program for reform is here – it starts with transparency: 1 . TRANSPARENCYAt any college or university that hosts an intercollegiate sports program, the principal…
From her meeting with the editorial board of the Statesman Journal: Ellen Rosenblum will seek changes in Oregon’s 40-year-old public records law to make government responses to citizen requests “earlier, cheaper and better.” This sounds nice. Oregon is rated one of the least transparent states for public records access. But…
6/23/2012: From Camilla Mortenson: Currently the county manual says “fees shall be calculated to reimburse the county for actual costs in making records or information available.” Those fees include the full cost of the staff position providing the information plus 2.5 percent “to cover costs associated with building, maintenance, utilities,…
6/3/2012: Bob Berdahl says UO can’t afford to give a few $200 fee waivers for public records requests anymore. And UO’s “self-supporting” athletics department can’t pay the $2 million a year that they are spending on athlete only Jock Box tutoring, so Jim Bean is taking it from the regular…
5/28/2012: Back in November the RG editors criticized President Lariviere for the raises that brought down the Governor’s wrath, noting that fully 40% of the money was going to administrators: “Bad Politics, Good Policy: The UO invests its tuition money in (some) people” … The documents list “special equity raises”…
Old news, nothing big, just posting this so I can find it later: From: “Thornton, Lisa” Subject: Public Records Request 2012-PRR-253Date: May 21, 2012 12:02:31 PM PDT 05/21/2012Dear [UO Matters] –Thank you for your patience regarding this request. It has been determined that bargaining unit members will first need to contact…
are not going to happen, I’ve got a defense. Live video is here. I did catch the part where Bob Berdahl announced that Jim Bean would return as provost on July 1, after a transition starting June 1. Back of the envelope the cost to UO of Bean’s strange sabbatical…
5/11/2012: As reported by April Baer, of OPB. League of Oregon Cities lobbyist Scott Winkels says agencies can’t afford transparency – for documents that might embarrass administrators and politicians. But many of the same agencies have plenty of state money for PR flacks that write fluff to make their top…
Update: Rebecca X gives a student viewpoint on this excess and extravagance, in the OC. 5/8/2012: Sam Stites of the ODE has a great expose of the administration’s Rose Bowl junket. How can 56 people spend $120,000 on airfare to LA? Believe what you want about Duck football attracting students…
5/4/2012: From UO Journalism Professor Kyu Houm’s great first amendment twitter feed. The Yemen Times story on their brand new FOI law is here. And the email from Hubin explaining how he and Berdahl and Geller are trashing the UO rules is here.
5/2/2012: Last September, after a long series of meetings and after input from the faculty, students, and the press, President Lariviere instituted a simple $200 fee waiver system for public records requests. It worked pretty well. Maybe too well. Yesterday, with no warning or discussion with the Senate Transparency Committee,…
4/24/2012 Updated 4/25/2012: Bill Graves story here. Kroger talked the talk on public records, but didn’t deliver. He threatened me for putting the PR manual online, then wrote a series of retrograde public records opinions that set Oregon back 20 years. To cap it off, Jeff Manning’s Oregonian piece today…
4/6/2012 update: And this morning after wasting a bit of our county DA’s time Randy Geller folded and gave up the contracts and invoices for the two firms UO has hired to advise them on the union organizing effort, here. One is with Stephen Hirschfeld of the SF firm Curiale…
From the Center for Public Integrity, funded by the Omidyar Network and the Rita Allen Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Rockefeller Family Fund. OK laws, bad follow through. Full report here.