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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 6:27 PM

IRS forced to comply with 34-year-old FOIA request

This FOIA request might take the record for longest to be fulfilled. Last week a federal judge ruled that the Internal Revenue Service must provide information requested in a FOIA request first submitted in 1974 by Susan B. Long, then a University of
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:18 PM

New York bill would make property assessments public, again

A bill passing through the Assembly and Senate in New York would make property assessments public (see story). They were public until a 2006 court ruling that stated they should be secret to prevent unwarranted invasion of privacy. Since the ruling, people
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:08 PM

Florida city council members have to turn over private computers

While it appears the president doesn't have to turn over e-mails produced on public computers (see below), a judge in Florida said city council members must turn over their personal home computers in order for people to get copies of their city-related
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