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Access to Public Records Act IN Code §§ 5-14-3-1 to 5-14-3-10 1983 [26] Any person Iowa Iowa Open Records Law Iowa Code §§ 22.1 to 22.16 1967 [27] Any person Kansas Kansas Open Records Act KSA §§ 45–215 to 45-524 1984 [28] Any person Kentucky Kentucky Open Records Act Kentucky Revised Statute Chapter §§ 61.870 to 61.884 1976 [29]
For example, Colorado has the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA); [11] in New Jersey the law is known as the Open Public Records Act (OPRA). [12] There are many degrees of accessibility to public records between states, with some making it fairly easy to request and receive documents, and others with many exemptions and restricted categories of ...
For requests to the State of New Jersey, OPRA requests for most information can be submitted online. A few other public agencies in New Jersey have online OPRA portals. Public contracts are considered “immediate access” records [3] A request will not be considered as under the OPRA if: The request for a record is sent to the wrong person.
Hodgson told the Herald-Leader Friday a new version of his House Bill 509 would “not touch” the current definition of public records, which all Kentuckians can attain via an open records ...
House Bill 509 from Rep. John Hodgson, R-Fisherville, narrows the definition of a “public record,” accessible via an open records request, to only include documentation that gives “notice to ...
Rep. John Hodgson made promised changes to House Bill 509, which changes the Open Records Act, but some say more work needs to be done. New KY open records bill still has transparency ‘loophole ...
The first major case of this type was the 1976 case Open America v. Watergate Special Prosecution Force, [51] in which Open America had filed a FOIA request with the U.S. Attorney General and the FBI requesting copies of all their documents relating to the role of former FBI Director L. Patrick Gray in the Watergate scandal. The FBI had over ...
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]