April 2023

[This is the third article that Civil Beat was given the first opportunity to publish, but did not.  Despite the many articles and opinion pieces that Civil Beat has published referencing the deliberative process privilege, it has chosen not to...

[This is the second article that was first offered to Civil Beat for publication, which it has not published.  The conference committee will be meeting on HB 719 today at 1:30 p.m.]   Civil Beat has published a number of...

[On April 19, 2023, the online organization Civil Beat was given the first opportunity to provide the article below to its readers, which was not published as of the time this What’s New article was disseminated.]   Despite the important...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) issued a new formal opinion regarding the redaction of information from the Offendertrak correctional directory maintained by the Department of Public Safety (PSD).  OIP Opinion Letter No. F23-02 is now posted on the...

Opinion Ltr. No. F23-02 April 14, 2023 Inmate Database Information A requester asked PSD for a dataset consisting of selected fields from PSD’s Offendertrak correctional database system covering the period from 2000-2018.  After initially estimating fees of over a million...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted the summaries of two new memorandum opinions concluding that agencies were absolved under the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA) from conducting searches for records that they actually knew did not exist....