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Sunday, March 30, 2008 10:34 PM

Carolyn Carlson urges Region 3 SPJ conference attendees to keep pushing for records

SPJ FOI Committee member Carolyn Carlson spoke at the SPJ Region 3 spring conference, urging members to never take "no" for an answer when requesting campus crime information. Carlson chairs the FOI Committee's subcommittee on access to campus crime
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 10:26 PM

AP to sue West Virginia Supreme Court over chief justice's documents

The Associated Press gave notice that it will sue the West Virgina Supreme Court for failing to follow the state public records law. Journalists requested work e-mail and other records regarding the chief justice in their investigation of a potential
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 10:16 PM

Illinois police decide to stop hiding juvenile cases after rash of attacks alarms public

This story illustrates exactly why police reports need to be public. Police in Peoria, Ill., had a longstanding policy of hiding any crime reports involving juveniles, only providing them if someone knew about it already and asked for it
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 10:01 PM

City councilman proposes city FOI law to duplicate state law, give perks to journalists

A city council member in New Britain, Conn., is proposing a city law that would duplicate the state public records law and give reporters free photocopying of records up to $200. I hate to say it, but this is a bad idea. First, there's no need to duplicate
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