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The law states that documents shall "be open for personal inspection by any citizen of Tennessee." Despite the law's provisions, federal court rulings have overturned similar state specific statutes and open up records in these states to all U.S. citizens. [2] In a U.S. Supreme Court ruling McBurney v.
Tennessee Tennessee Open Records Act: Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 10-7-503 to 10-7-508 1957 [54] Citizens of the state/commonwealth Texas Texas Public Information Act: Gov't §§ 552.001 to 552.376 1973 [55] Any person Utah Government Records Access and Management Act Utah Code Title 63G-2-101 to 63G-2-804 1991 [56] Any person Vermont Vermont Open ...
Johnson founded the Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR) in 2004. Under his leadership, the organization used the Tennessee Open Records Act of obtain Al Gore's home energy bills the day after the former Vice President won an Academy Award for the climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth. [17]
Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments. The emergence of freedom of information legislation was a response to increasing dissatisfaction with the secrecy surrounding government policy development and decision making. [1]
The Tennessee House punted a vote on a bill Monday that would restrict local governments' power to enact local reforms on their police departments. TN House punts vote on bill limiting cities from ...
The Piedmont Park Conservancy is a private non-profit that oversees and manages Piedmont Park.In 2007, when the organization moved forward with a plan to install a controversial parking structure, a group opposed to the plan—Friends of Piedmont Park—filed an open record request under Georgia Georgia's open records legislationn [1] for records of the Conservancy.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks during the Tennessee Republican Party’s Statesmen’s Dinner at Music City Center in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, June 15, 2024.
On Thursday afternoon, Tennessee became the first state to enact voice, image and likeness protections for its residents against misuses of artificial intelligence through a new bill, the ELVIS Act.