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LAST CALL for entries for Nancy Monson Spirit of FOI Award Nominations!

2013-08-18T18:40:06-05:00

Submit your 2013 Spirit of FOI Award nominations Monday, April 8, is the deadline for electronic submission of entries for the 2013 Nancy Monson Spirit of FOI Award, which this year for the first time will recognize work in three divisions. Sponsored by the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas and the Texas Press Association and named after FOIFT’s former executive director, the award recognizes journalists and/or newspapers for outstanding efforts that uphold First Amendment principles, increase public access to government and improve awareness of state open government statutes. FOIFT is one of the leading education and advocacy non-profit organizations in [...]

LAST CALL for entries for Nancy Monson Spirit of FOI Award Nominations!2013-08-18T18:40:06-05:00

Court Declines to Hear Texas Open Meetings Appeal

2013-08-15T23:35:51-05:00

Originally published March 25, 2013 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal challenging the Texas Open Meetings Act, keeping intact the law that bans government officials from talking business in informal settings. Officials from 15 cities in Texas challenged the law in 2009, saying they supported open government but that the law banned such behavior as simply talking to a colleague about a matter on a city meeting agenda. The 1967 law prohibits a quorum of members of a governmental body from deliberating in secret, and violations are punishable by up to six [...]

Court Declines to Hear Texas Open Meetings Appeal2013-08-15T23:35:51-05:00

Call for Entries | 2013 Nancy Monson Spirit of FOI Award

2013-08-18T19:32:14-05:00

Submit your 2013 Spirit of FOI Award nominations Monday, April 8, is the deadline for electronic submission of entries for the 2013 Nancy Monson Spirit of FOI Award, which this year for the first time will recognize work in three divisions. Sponsored by the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas and the Texas Press Association and named after FOIFT’s former executive director, the award recognizes journalists and/or newspapers for outstanding efforts that uphold First Amendment principles, increase public access to government and improve awareness of state open government statutes. FOIFT is one of the leading education and advocacy non-profit organizations in [...]

Call for Entries | 2013 Nancy Monson Spirit of FOI Award2013-08-18T19:32:14-05:00

Restrict employers’ social media access

2013-08-18T18:46:28-05:00

Express-News Editorial Board Updated Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other networking websites are great social media tools that allow us to keep up with friends, family and colleagues. They also have created a gray area in employment law that needs some clarification. At least four different bills have been filed in Austin this legislative session seeking to maintain employee privacy when it comes to their social media accounts. Employers have other avenues for obtaining information on employers and prospective job applicants. Asking employees to give up any semblance of privacy by turning over their passwords to social media [...]

Restrict employers’ social media access2013-08-18T18:46:28-05:00

Information blackout on Texas public pensions must end

2013-08-15T23:10:25-05:00

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Originally posted Feb. 13, 2013 By now, it should be clear to every member of the Legislature, even the new ones, that HB2460 should not have been approved two years ago. The bill, written by then-Rep. Vicki Truitt of Keller, dropped a curtain of secrecy around information about public retirement funds in Texas. Pretty much, it said the people who run those funds, not the attorney general and not even state courts, get to decide whether to release information about their finances, even requests for broad overviews not violating the privacy of any individual. Last year, Truitt said [...]

Information blackout on Texas public pensions must end2013-08-15T23:10:25-05:00
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