Tag: FOIA
Why Would FOIA Not Apply to the Wilmington Mayor’s Office?
DelCOG (and John Flaherty) informs us of something pretty alarming — that AG Biden’s office officially thinks that the Office of the Wilmington Mayor is *not* covered by FOIA. How can that be, you ask? According to the DelCOG letter, the AGs office has issued an opinion at the Wilmington Mayor’s office is not subject to FOIA because the Mayor’s office is a 1 person agency.
Karen Weldin Stewart Doesn’t Like Open Government
A tipster sent me this link to the newly proposed regulations for FOIA requests to the Insurance Commissioners office. There are a few things that look somewhat odd to me. First, there will be no public hearing on these regulations. Not a big surprise, given the IC’s record of backroom dealings. The public has until […]
Legislative Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show-Wed., March 31
“Idle hands are the Devil’s playground.” Prof. Harold Hill- “The Music Man” No doubt this is a biblical reference as well, a book I’ve been meaning to read for some time now. I use it here b/c we’re starting to see well-meaning, but dangerous, legislation starting to surface, most concerning additional charges for existing crimes. […]
More House Prefiles
HB 300 proposed by Representative Brad Bennett has been prefiled and it establishes a 10-day response window to respond to FOIA requests.
SEU Oversight Board Authority Expired
There was some question around here last week about whether or not the SEU was acting within the law that created them. There was an allegation that their term had expired per statute. Here is the pertinent part of the law: There is hereby created the SEU Oversight Board which shall, from passage of this […]
Report from the SEU Meeting
Things are quiet here at work this week, so I had some time to make it out to the SEU meeting at the Buena Vista Conference Center. I have never been to one of these sorts of meetings before, so I was a bit tentative. Luckily, there were some pretty smart and experienced people on […]
This is Why We Don’t Believe Them
Whenever the issue of erosion of civil liberties comes up in conversation, someone will invariably pipe in with some line about how much improved our security as a nation is. “Look at how many terrorist attacks we have prevented!” I have always had this feeling that most of the attacks that we have prevented are […]
CRS Clamps Down on Report Distribution
The Congressional Research Service is a part of the legislative branch and is responsible for researching topics on behalf of Congress. They produced the report that I posted last week about why various US Attorneys had been removed before their term expired. They produce a lot of data like that. It has only recently come […]
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