Politwoops: “Deleted Doesn’t Mean Inaccessible: Search and Access Deleted Tweets By Politicians,” from the 4/29/13 LJ InfoDocket post by Gary Price.
(Priceless Meanderings: Diamonds are Forever (Fleming & Bond) and Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend (Loos and Monroe) and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Lennon and McCarthy) and Tweety Bird (of course!).)
Read about FOI Day at the Newseum, to commemorate the (March 16th) birthday of James Madison.
Federal Freedom of Information Act.
How to file a federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request.
Update: See “Oregon Supreme Court will tackle MERS foreclosure issues,” by Brent Hunsberger, The Oregonian, July 19, July 20 (print edition), 2012.
For the decision AND an overview of Oregon’s nonjudicial foreclosure laws:
Rebecca Niday v. GMAC Mortgage, LLC (A147430) (from Clackamas County Circuit Court)
Future Lawyer gives us this blog post: “Search Public Records on the Cheap”
This question comes to librarians usually in this form:
I am looking for Criminal Records for someone I want to hire, want to rent to, want to date, etc. Can I search for that information online – and for free?
The answer:
Mail Tribune, Inc. v. Winters (A139107) (See also Court of Appeals Media Release dated 6/23/10)
Excerpt:
“The Jackson County Sheriff appeals a judgment declaring that all concealed handgun licenses issued by the Sheriff of Jackson County are public records and ordering the sheriff to disclose a list of all concealed handgun licenses issued in the county in 2006 and 2007. On de novo review, ORS 192.490(1); ORS 19.415(3) (2007),(1) we affirm, because the requested documents are public records and the sheriff failed to establish that the public records are exempt from disclosure. ORS 192.410-192.529; see Guard Publishing Co. v. Lane County School Dist., 310 Or 32, 39, 791 P2d 854 (1990) (disclosure of public records is the rule and public bodies must prove individualized bases for exemptions)….” (Link to full case.)
Records flap has ironic twist: Activists publish the state’s public records manual on the Internet over the Justice Department’s objections, by David Steves, The Register-Guard, appeared in print: Wednesday, Sep 23, 2009.
Excerpt: “Right-to-know advocates are defying Oregon’s attorney general by putting a restricted government document on the Web for everyone to see.
But the document at the center of this dispute isn’t a sensitive record such as a list of Oregonians’ Social Security numbers or names of concealed-handgun-permit holders.
I’ve been grousing for a while about the online absence of the Oregon AG Public Records Manual and others have done more than grouse!
Open Up Oregon has links to PDFs for the full manual and the story behind their efforts. Hurrah!
Thank you to Professor Harbaugh (and Carl Malmud) for his (their) efforts and for bringing me up to date.
Oregon Legal Research Blog