The Assembly: Public Records Must Be Produced ‘Promptly.’ How Did N.C. Towns Do?. “In conjunction with Sunshine Week, an annual celebration of open government and public records, NC Local, The Assembly, WFAE, and WUNC requested the same set of emails from North Carolina’s 20 largest cities at the same time. Some provided the documents within minutes. Others placed the requests into queues […]

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'California’s hazardous waste regulator added hundreds of pages of federal road accident reports to a rulemaking record — then gave the public a broken link to access them...'

https://calmatters.org/environment/2026/03/hazardous-waste-manifest-dtsc-records/

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Key Biscayne Independent: Censorship by invoice? Village starts charging $70 an hour for public records after settlement of gag policy lawsuit. “Village Manager Steve Williamson won’t say if his new policy to charge for public documents once free applies only to the media – like his media gag policy did. Still, theIndependent is now being charged for receiving government emails, which for […]

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Pembroke Pines, FL quietly built a surveillance machine over 10 years. $1.3 million. 160+ cameras. Facial recognition. FBI database access. Audio capture. A nationwide plate database with 4 billion+ reads. The City Commission voted on it 13 times. Never once debated it. Every claim here is from public records. 🧵

#SurveillanceState #ALPR #PembrokePines #Broward #FlockSafety #FacialRecognition #PublicRecords #Florida

TSM by the numbers:

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→ Thousands of pages processed

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VT Digger: Corporate requests for public records are weighing down already burdened town officials in Vermont . “The town is spending more and more time fielding requests from companies that aren’t based in Vermont but that collect and sell its public information for a profit, she said. There’s little or nothing illegal, Marshall acknowledged, about what those companies are doing. But she […]

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