open records requests

Lola Potter, the public information officer for the Tennessee Department of Finance & Administration who has stonewalled me on my open-records request for video shot at the governor's mansion underground ballroom blasting site since mid-March, finally caved in today and agreed to let me view the v

Tom Humphrey had an update on the story involving TNGOP Chairwoman Robin Smith's "private" letter to the Governor being released to the media.

The nonpartisan Tennessee Center for Policy Research has filed

Government Editor for the local Gannett daily, Jennifer Peebles, discusses the importance of filing away extraneous info from open records requests for a rainy day:

Drew Johnson of the Tennessee Center For Policy Research is once again knee deep in a controversy over open records requests:

Matte Pulle - surely the odds on favorite to replace the irreplaceable Liz Garrigan as editor of the Nashville Scene - has a hilarious piece in this week's edition of the paper's "Desperately Seeking the News" column that

John Rodgers reports that Ron Paul supporter and candidate for state House is upset with her incumbent opponent’s amendment which would have lawmakers notified when their names come up in open records requests:

It has now been 36 days since I made a rather routine open-records request to the Bredesen administration, and specifically Department of Finance & Administration public information officer Lola Potter, for video taken of blasting (for that underground ballroom) at the governor's mansion construct

I'm beginning to understand why the Tennessee Center for Policy Research felt it had to sue Lola Potter, the public info officer for the state Department of Finance & Administration, to force her to stop ignoring their legitimate open records requests for more than nine months.

Here's the latest update in the ongoing saga of the Bredesen administration violating the state's open records laws regarding my request to make a copy of the state's video of blasting at the governor's mansion construction site: