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The Public Records Act (PRA) is a law of the U.S. state of Washington requiring public access to all records and materials from state and local agencies. [1] It was originally passed as a ballot initiative by voters in 1972 and revised several times by the state legislature. The definition of public records, especially concerning the state ...
Reclaim The Records is the first genealogical organization to successfully sue a government agency for the release of records back to the public. As of July 2019, the organization has acquired and freely published more than twenty five million records, most of which had never been open to the public before in any location or format, or else ...
The California Public Records Act (California Government Code §§6250-6276.48) covers the arrest and booking records of inmates in the State of California jails and prisons, which are not covered by First Amendment rights (freedom of speech and of the press). Public access to arrest and booking records is seen as a critical safeguard of liberty.
Founded in 1950, the Municipal Archives preserves and makes accessible records created by the government of New York City (including the mayor's office, city agencies, the City Council, the Comptroller, borough presidents and the Public Advocate). The collections include manuscripts, sound recordings, film and tape footage, maps, blueprints ...
The Public Records Act 1958 was the foundational legislation in the UK that governed the preservation and access to public records. It was this act that established the principle of transferring records from public offices to The National Archives, and other places of deposit, after 30 years unless they were selected for earlier destruction.
The FOIA Project was created by TRAC to track government agencies' responsiveness to public records requests and to document the growing number of FOIA cases litigated in federal court. [10] The Project maintains a public website with information on federal FOIA cases, [ 31 ] agency FOIA processing times, a list of the most active FOIA ...
An original cell of the Public Record Office at the Maughan Library. The growing size of the archives held by the PRO and by government departments led to the Public Records Act 1958, which sought to avoid the indiscriminate retention of huge numbers of documents by establishing standard selection procedures for the identification of those documents of sufficient historical importance to be ...
Juliet Bravo is a British television police procedural drama series, first broadcast on 30 August 1980, [1] that ran for six series and a total of 88 episodes on BBC1. [2] The theme of the series concerned a female police inspector who took over control of a police station in the fictional town of Hartley in Lancashire.