Judge allows public records lawsuit against Sumner County schools to proceed
GALLATIN — The Sumner County School Board lost the first round in a court fight Friday to be able to reject public records requests from citizens who make those requests Continue Reading Tennessee...
View ArticleTennessee Supreme Court agrees to hear public records case involving police...
The Tennessee Supreme Court has granted the application of The Tennessean and other media organizations to appeal a Court of Appeals decision regarding what police records are exempt from the Continue...
View ArticleJudge’s order in case about Sumner County Board of Education’s restrictive...
Sumner County Judge Dee David Gay signed an order last week denying a summary judgment to the Sumner County Board of Education in a public records case about its restrictive request Continue Reading...
View ArticleNFOIC and SPJ combine war chests to fight for Freedom of Information
Joint press release from SPJ-NFOIC. (TCOG is a member of NFOIC): INDIANAPOLIS/Jefferson City – The Society of Professional Journalists and the National Freedom of Information Coalition are joining...
View ArticleJudge denies open records lawsuit against Haslam
By ERIK SCHELZIG, Associated Press A tax attorney who sued for the release of records from Gov. Bill Haslam’s administration related to a $350,000 analysis of business tax collections in Tennessee...
View ArticleSupreme Court case will decide public access to police files
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – News media organizations on Thursday asked the Tennessee Supreme Court to rule that some police records should be open to the public, even during an investigation Continue...
View ArticleAppeals Court reverses denial of attorney fees in public records case
The Court of Appeals in Nashville reversed a trial court ruling, and ordered attorney’s fees be awarded to Alex Friedmann, managing editor of Prison Legal News, who sued the Marshall Continue Reading...
View ArticleJudge says Sumner County Schools denied public records request, but not willful
Sumner County Judge Dee David Gay said Thursday in preliminary findings that Sumner County Schools denied a public records request from open government advocate Ken Jakes, but that he heard Continue...
View ArticleJudge rules Sumner County Schools violated public records law, orders it to stop
GALLATIN — Nearly 20 months after citizen Ken Jakes requested to see the Sumner County Schools public records policy, Sumner County Judge Dee Gay ruled today that the school district Continue Reading...
View ArticleWhat we learned from a citizen’s fight for public records in Sumner County
At a cost of about three or four college educations at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Sumner County’s school officials and school board just got educated about the state’s public records...
View ArticleSumner schools will appeal judge’s ruling in open records case
The Sumner County school board voted last night unanimously to appeal a ruling by a local judge in an open records case where they were found to violate the law in Continue Reading Tennessee Coalition...
View ArticleJudge blasts Sumner Schools for refusing to update its public records policy,...
Last week, Sumner County Criminal Court Judge Dee David Gay unleashed a verbal whipping to the Sumner County School Board when they argued to stay his order to update its public Continue Reading...
View ArticleSumner Schools files emergency motion with Appeals Court over public records...
The Sumner County Board of Education, whose legal bills have now mounted to more than $113,000, has made an emergency motion to the Court of Appeals to stay a judge’s Continue Reading Tennessee...
View ArticleNews Sentinel files lawsuit over sealed court documents in UT rape case
The Knoxville News Sentinel filed a lawsuit today, after requesting for more than a year to inspect court records and exhibits in the aggravated rape cases against former Tennessee football Continue...
View ArticleThe Tennessean urges Sumner school board to release legal bills in public...
After receiving heavily redacted copies of legal bills for Sumner County Schools, the Gallatin News Examiner, Hendersonville Star News and The Tennessean sent a letter to the school district last...
View ArticleAppeals Court denies Sumner Schools request; deadline to fix public records...
The Court of Appeals in Nashville today denied a request by Sumner County Schools to delay enforcement of a judge’s order to bring their public records policy into compliance with Continue Reading...
View ArticleThe Tennessean: School board to accept voicemail for records inspection
The Sumner County School Board met last night to adopt a new policy on public records requests after a judge last year said their policy violated state law. They had Continue Reading Tennessee...
View ArticleTennessee Supreme Court says police records in active cases cannot be...
The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled today that any record that is part of a police department’s criminal investigation cannot be disclosed except to the defendant in certain situations. The opinion...
View ArticleNews-Sentinel Editor Jack McElroy on police records and the Supreme Court...
From Jack McElroy, editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel, in a column published Sunday: Boy, did Gary Wade touch a nerve. The former Supreme Court justice dissented in the media’s Continue Reading...
View ArticleJudge says Nashville violated law by not providing public records promptly
In what may be the first legal challenge to government delays on public records requests in Tennessee under a 2008 law, a judge has ruled that Metro Nashville violated the Continue Reading Tennessee...
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