Nashville school board moves to increase charter school transparency
Reporter Joey Garrison’s story this weekend in The Tennessean is a good one about increasing charter school transparency. While some might think it’s as much politics as anything behind the motivation...
View ArticleCity of Nashville declines records request that could help show judges’ hours...
The city of Nashville declined part of a recent public records request by The Tennesssean that would have shown the time of day Davidson County judges used their access cards to Continue Reading...
View ArticleThe Tennessean: Judges block access to Vandy rape case records
The Court of Appeals at Nashville ruled against the media coalition seeking police records in the Vanderbilt rape case, reversing the trial court that had granted access. Judge Richard Dinkins Continue...
View ArticleDinkins opinion in public records case expands police secrecy powers
The Court of Appeals in Nashville last week kicked the can farther down the wrong road when it expanded police powers so they could keep just about anything and everything Continue Reading Tennessee...
View ArticleThe Tennessean gives state Tuesday deadline to fulfill July public records...
The Tennessean gave the state a Tuesday deadline to fulfill a public records request it originally made in July last year as it considers asking a court to intervene, the Continue Reading Tennessee...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 seals evidence from Vanderbilt rape trial
The Tennessean reports that Judge Monte Watkins, in an unusual move, has sealed all evidence presented in the recent Vanderbilt rape trial of two former football players. An excerpt from Continue...
View ArticleReporters Committee, others file amicus brief in Tennessee police records case
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and the University of Virginia School of...
View ArticleThe Tennessean: UT withholds emails about student athletes, citing FERPA
The Tennessean’s news director Maria DeVarenne said the University of Tennessee is stonewalling the news organization’s efforts to report on allegations of sexual assault against football players. In a...
View ArticleWilliamson County commissioners hold private meetings to interview school...
Two Williamson County commissioners are holding private meetings with candidates to decide who should fill an open position on the Williamson County School Board, but the county commission attorney...
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 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 ArticleNewspaper probe of economic development reveals big gaps in transparency,...
The state’s four largest newspapers published an examination of local and state economic development programs and came up with this answer: Are Tennessee job subsidies a success? Secrecy makes it...
View ArticleTDEC clamps down on public records as tons of radioactive waste heads to...
The state has stopped allowing citizens access to how much low-level radioactive waste is going into landfills, according to a report by Nashville investigative journalist Anita Wadhwani in The...
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