Town of Amsterdam Planning Board gets failing grade on Open Meetings Law dailygazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailygazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MASSENA â The town of Massena Planning Board was one of 15 planning boards that received a failing grade from the New York Coalition for Open Government for not posting documents online.
Paul Wolf, president of the non-partisan, non-profit organization, told reporters during a Zoom session on Wednesday that his group reviewed 20 planning boards from across the state, and only 25% of them had documents posted online.
âWhat planning boards do has a great impact on communities, so itâs really important that they post information online for people to see what is happening at a planning board meeting. Unfortunately, our findings today are, of the 20 planning boards that we took a look at, only five were posting documents online,â he said, calling it a âpretty poor showing.â
Posted By Electronic Frontier Foundation on Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 9:57 AM click to enlarge And the worst offenders of the year are. The day after the 2021 inauguration, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to Twitter to declare: Biden is making transparency cool again. This was a head-scratcher for many journalists and transparency advocates. Freedom of Information the concept that government documents belong to and must be accessible to the people has never not been cool. Using federal and local public records laws, a single individual can uncover everything from war crimes to health code violations at the local taqueria. How awesome is that? If you need more proof: There was an Australian comic-book series called Southern Squadron: Freedom of Information Act ; the classic anime Evangelion has a Freedom
Rotterdam denies Gazette’s appeal for police audit | The Daily Gazette
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The town of Rotterdam denied a request by The Daily Gazette for access to a Police Department audit more than a month after the information was originally sought. The town only notified the newspaper it would not share the documentation after the newspaper asked for comment about why the town ignored the request in the first place.
Once an entity asks for public information under the Freedom of Information Law, municipalities are required to meet certain deadlines concerning supplying the information or explaining why they won’t.
Town appeals officer John Woodward Tuesday again denied the Gazette’s Feb. 24 request for the audit about its sex offender registry and how it was mishandled.
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