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• Eye on Boise: Seminars on open meetings, public records draw well

  December 11, 2011 in Idaho on Page B3 More than 230 people throughout North Idaho attended open government seminars last week in Sandpoint, Coeur d’Alene, Moscow and Lewiston. Each of the sessions, sponsored by Idahoans for Openness in …

• Idaho watching R-71 signature case

  April 27, 2010 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – Idaho has much at stake in Washington’s big U.S. Supreme Court case over whether referendum petition signatures should be public. “Our initiative and referendum statute is very similar …

• Idaho has stake in Washington signatures case

    April 26, 2010 in Idaho Idaho has much at stake in Washington’s big U.S. Supreme Court case over whether referendum petition signatures should be public or not. “Our initiative and referendum statute is very similar … 3

• Court exempts Wash. state judiciary from disclosure

  October 15, 2009 in City The judiciary in Washington is exempt from public disclosure requirements under the state’s Public Records Act, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday, creating what a critic called a “huge black … 2

• Government transparency site launched in Idaho

  August 18, 2009 in Idaho A nonprofit group on Tuesday launched a new “government transparency” Web site designed to give anyone who’s interested details about state and local government spending in Idaho, from a mayor’s …

• Open season on open records

  September 2, 2007 in City on Page B1 OLYMPIA – Here are some of Washington’s government secrets: Preliminary drafts. Pesticide-poisoning reports. Complaints about embalmers. And the names of van-pool riders. Thirty-five years after Washington voters included open-records rules …