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Conn.'s FOI Process Can Bring Change,
But You May Need to Fight for It
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 I've spent a good deal of time in the last two years on three cases I filed with the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission. The cases were against the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles, and demonstrate that you can change governmental practices through this appeals process - but you may have serious tussles along the way. [More]
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Protective Agreement Limits
Public Access to Vt. Pipeline Records
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The Vermont Public Service Board, a quasi-judicial agency that oversees Vermont utilities, recently approved a protective order that will limit public access to records related to a controversial pipeline project in the state. A Vermont utility company leading the project requested the order. [More]
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When Secrets Flourish: The Aftermath
of Document Shredding at Maine's CDC
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In 2012, the deputy director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention told state employees to destroy public documents. She called them "working documents" and said she routinely got rid of such paperwork. She wanted to destroy these documents as "version control," concerned, she said, that people would get confused. [More]
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