Supervisors seek privacy
November 19, 2008: With a wish list in hand, the county Board of Supervisors outlined its requests Nov. 18 to Loudoun's delegation for the 2009 General Assembly session. Topping the list was protection against requests to disclose their personal e-mails.
Supervisors' priorities included legislation drafted to limit requests made under the Freedom of Information Act for board members' personal e-mails. Read the full article here.
Radford, paper continue their legal wrangling
November 15, 2008: A legal fight between The Roanoke Times and the city of Radford over a Freedom of Information request that the city wants to keep confidential will continue into December, a judge ruled Friday.
The lawsuit centers around two FOIA requests filed with Radford officials in August and September by Roanoke Times reporter Tim Thornton. Among other things, Thornton asked the city to provide him copies of any other FOIA requests the city received between June 15 and Sept. 18. Read the full article here.
Publication Of School Salary Data Is Targeted
November 6, 2008: Earlier this year, when the Potomac News (now called the News & Messenger) published an Internet database listing all Prince William County school employees by name and their respective salaries, the school system was forced into an awkward position.
On one hand, school officials were upset at the disclosures of pay for rank-and-file employees, including bus drivers, janitors and teachers. On the other hand, it was the school system that released that information at the request of the local paper, citing the state's Freedom of Information Act. Read the full article here.
Use of government-owned vehicles strikes nerve in Commonwealth
October 8, 2008: Questions the Westmoreland County Citizens Association raised during the last twelve month about the use of Westmoreland's publicly owned government vehicles struck a nerve that has resonances throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.
This Monday the Richmond Times-Dispatch published figures its staff obtained when as many as twenty localities were asked to provide detailed information about the use of government-owned vehicles. Read the full article here.
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