Do we have a problem - systemwide and on campus - about responding to Public Records Act requests?
An earlier post noted the long delay in
providing the UCLA Faculty Association with the business plan for the proposed
hotel/conference center. The Faculty
Association still has not received the consulting report that was supposed to
be the back-up support for the plan.
Presumably, that report was available well before the Feb. 9, 2012 date
the plan itself was approved. And we did not get the plan itself until it appeared on the Regents website earlier this week and well after Feb. 9. Read on:
The University of
California is violating state law by refusing to release portions of an
investigative report on a police officer's pepper-spraying of Occupy
protesters, public-records experts said Wednesday. An Alameda County judge ruled this week that
the university could release all but a few sections of the report to the
public. But UC lawyers refused to release the document to this newspaper, which
had requested it under the California Public Records Act. The state law
requires public agencies such as the UC to provide most documents upon request.
The university provided two disparate explanations for the denial, each of
which open-government advocates criticized.
In an email, UC
attorney Stella Ngai said "the documents originally requested have now been
altered into a form that no longer represents a final version." She did
not explain how the document had been altered, and she did not give a legal
citation for the refusal…
Full article at http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_20226299/uc-violates-law-delaying-pepper-spray-report-release
Basically, when you file a public records request, it's hard to get satisfaction. Wasn't there a song about that?:
1 comment:
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