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Earlier this week, I wrote about Idaho’s lackluster efforts in making public records available online. I researched the issue on behalf of Sunshine Week, a national organization that spotlights the value of public access to government records. Idaho wound up tied for No. 40 in a national ranking of online records access. Now to a double serving of good news from Monday’s Senate State Affairs Committee meeting. The committee introduced a bill that would require elected officials to file financial disclosure reports, and approved a bill to put some teeth into the open meetings law/Kevin Richert, Idaho Statesman. More here.
Question: By and large, do governments at all levels in Idaho respect the Open Meeting Law?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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JamesBond on March 19 at 10:54 a.m.
No, local government is TERRIBLE with this issue.
Arpie on March 19 at 11:50 a.m.
The Owyhees bill was not tinkered with. It was however attached to another bill and it passed the senate-again. It’s now heading back to the house for a vote that only needs a majority to pass. Last week it fell 3 votes short of a 2/3 majority. Idaho may have it’s first new Wilderness in a generation- over a half million acres of magnificient sage country.