Congress passed the Presidential Records Act in 1978, following the Watergate scandal. The Act requires that presidential records be preserved and transferred to the National Archives. CNN Politics Politico: Staffers tape back together presidential records Trump rips up by Continue Reading →
Ruling on a FOIA lawsuit brought by a public advocacy group, a federal judge has ordered disclosure of documents that back up EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s public statements with regard to climate change that he made on CNBC last year. Continue Reading →
Upholding a lower court, an Appellate Court ruled on 6/4/2018 that incident reports relating to a Union County jail inmate’s death are disclosable, subject to appropriate redactions for personal identifiers. The Court rejected the argument that an incident report is Continue Reading →
On May 23, 2018, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the sale of public property calls for transparency and that the identity of buyers at public auctions must be disclosed in order to guard against fraud and abuse. The Continue Reading →
Government agencies conduct surveys for a variety of reasons, such as to determine public opinion on an issue, the level of need for a service, or the extent of a problem. The applicability of the Open Public Records Act — Continue Reading →
Following last year’s adoption of an ordinance restricting video-recording of the Township’s governing body meetings, Lyndhurst Township now pays for the service but has yet to make the videos readily available. The original plan when the Board of Commissioners voted Continue Reading →
Insurance buyers have an interest in understanding how insurance executives are being compensated. The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (NJ DOBI) holds that such information is public. The Inquirer | Philly.com N.J. regulators back disclosure of health Continue Reading →
Pennsylvania’s Office of Open Records has ruled that the package offered to incentivize Amazon to establish a new headquarters in the Lehigh Valley is a public record. New Jersey’s pitch includes $7 billion in tax breaks. There is at least Continue Reading →
