[45619] in Cypherpunks
Re: Oklahoma University: Is this legal?...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Warren)
Tue Dec 19 13:35:27 1995
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 09:14:09 -0800
To: sethf@MIT.EDU, cypherpunks@toad.com, fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu,
Michael.W.Speck@uoknor.edu, editor@adserv.dsa.uoknor.edu,
holovacs@styx.ios.com
From: jwarren@well.com (Jim Warren)
At 07:09 PM 12/17/95, sethf@MIT.EDU wrote:
> c) someone decided that everything stored on the University's
>computer system was therefore a "public record" (since the computer is
>"owned" by the public), and thus had to be accessible by law.
Uh, every PRA (public records act) in the nation hase extensive exceptions
-- for school records, collective bargaining, various investigative
records, etc.
NO state PRA or federal FOIA declares blanket access to all public-agency
records -- often justifiably; sometimes for agency arse-covering.
--jim
Jim Warren, GovAccess list-owner/editor (jwarren@well.com)
Advocate & columnist, MicroTimes, Government Technology, BoardWatch, etc.
