SC House approves strengthening open records law
From Aiken Standard: COLUMBIA, S.C.—The South Carolina House approved a bill Thursday strengthening the state's open records law. The bill approved 101-1 a bill barring public agencies, governments...
View ArticleNFOIC's State FOIA Friday for May 18, 2012
A few state FOIA and local open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week:Open meeting law needs looser definition...
View ArticleFather of Crash Victim Says Investigation Records Withheld
From Southern Political Report: September 18, 2012 — COLUMBIA -- The father of a 20-year-old man who was killed in a car accident in 2005 is still pressing for answers.L. Paul Trask, Jr. has accused...
View ArticleSC House to consider proposal to make lawmakers’ records public
From myrtlebeachonline.com: COLUMBIA, SC -- The S.C. House will consider ending part of the exemption that lawmakers have from the state’s sunshine laws. The state’s Freedom of Information Act, which...
View ArticleSC House Speaker dodging WIS open records requests
From WISTV.com:COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) — Despite state law that says such records are to be kept for four years and two public records requests, one of which delivered directly to the Speaker himself, Bobby...
View ArticlePornographic email investigation: WIS asks for records, gets $30K bill instead
From WIS: FAIRFIELD COUNTY, SC (WIS) - A WIS investigation into allegations that the Fairfield County administrator had disseminated pornography from his tax payer-funded computer has ended with a...
View ArticleSC: Medical University of SC fights newspaper over information involving...
An attorney for the Medical University of South Carolina says it could cost $275,000 to search email servers in connection with an open records inquiry into allegations that two students cheated on...
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