Board proposal restricts access
November 7, 2008: A proposal to restrict the public’s access to applications for university president and chancellor positions in North Dakota will be forwarded to the Legislature.
The state Board of Higher Education unanimously agreed Thursday to introduce a bill that would keep names of applicants secret until candidates become semifinalists.
The legislation would exempt records identifying applicants from North Dakota’s open records law, which requires most government records to be open to the public. Read the full article here.
Legislative panel demands records from ND auditor
October 22, 2008: A legislative committee is demanding more than three years' worth of records from North Dakota's state auditor in a search for information about the prosecution of the former state workers compensation director.
State Auditor Robert R. Peterson said the formal request - which the Legislature's Audit and Fiscal Review Committee endorsed on a 10-3 vote - was unnecessary because the documents the lawmakers want already are public records. Read the full article here.
E-mails add details to UP plans
October 19, 2008: Dan Huffman oversees a Fargo School District budget in excess of $100 million, orchestrates major building projects, lobbies lawmakers and negotiates teacher contracts as assistant superintendent for business services.
He also spent a great deal of time last year as treasurer for the Metro Sports Foundation, a group of hockey supporters from the public and private sectors who built Fargo’s $25 million Urban Plains Center that opens Oct. 30.
But in July, after Huffman and other public servants on the MSF board were directed by the North Dakota attorney general’s office to turn over e-mailed foundation-related documents from their home computers, his reply through an attorney was that his computer failed and all data was lost. Read the full article here.
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