public record

An excerpt from the eastside.

Rob Huddleston on the reporting of a public record:

The Bredesen administration recently claimed - without any support in state law - that some emails created by state government employees on state government computers aren't public records (even though state law clearly says they are) because the emails are "personal" rather than related to state business.

Aunt B.

Yesterday afternoon, the Scene and the City Paper reported the grimy details of Pedro Garcia's memo, which, among other things, cast board chair Marsha Warden as a conniving segregati

“Providing information to the public is an essential function of a representative government and an integral part of the routine duties and responsibilities of public officers and employees;”
- The Tennessee Legislature

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It has now been 100 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 access to the video taken of blasting (for that underground ballroom) at the governor's ma

All of you pro-developer journalists and political communications types at the Metro Courthouse take note. Carol McCullough has an outstanding list of dirty tricks used by developers (and the politicians who love them) to supress citizen participation in the planning process.

This Is Personal
Bredesen administration now won’t turn over ‘certain’ emails

by Matt Pulle