Topics http://wvgazette.com http://wvgazette.com/feeds/logo.jpg http://wvgazette.com 144 31 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200202030003 On Monday, Jim Wilmoth picked up The Charleston Gazette and read how the state's sheriffs and superintendents ignore the public records law. It didn't surprise him, he said recently, to rea...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200202030003 Sun, 03 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201300011 THE STATE law that requires public officials to share public information also threatens fines and jail time for those who break the law. No sheri...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201300011 Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201300009 Public officials in other states hem and haw much like their West Virginia counterparts when confronted with open records requests. An Illinois sheriff, for instance, crumpled up a copy of...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201300009 Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201300010 Who receives a request. Send requests for documents to the person in charge of the government body that has the records you want. http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201300010 Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201290011 Kanawha and Putnam counties responded well to a recent statewide audit that tested the state's open-records law for four county offices, but they didn't fare as well as some county leaders would have liked. http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201290011 Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201290010 In April 1977, the passage of HB 838 by the West Virginia Legislature was barely noticed. The bill got a one-sentence write-up in the Sunday Gazette-Mail, lost among the dozens of other meas...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201290010 Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201290009 Here is a list of significant state Supreme Court rulings concerning public records access: Daily Gazette Co. vs http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201290009 Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201280011 IN October, a Gazette reporter visited the Mercer County Courthouse in Princeton to review and copy a week's worth of daily log sheets. The sheets show the calls Mercer County deputies respond to during each shift. http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201280011 Mon, 28 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201280010 CLAY County Schools Superintendent Jerry Linkinoggor knows most folks in the county. So when a person came to the Board of Education office in Clay in October, asked for the superin...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201280010 Mon, 28 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201280009 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201280009 Mon, 28 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201270009 Twenty-five years ago, West Virginia lawmakers passed a law to guarantee residents access to government records. In the 1977 state Freedom of Information Act, lawmakers declared that residen...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201270009 Sun, 27 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201270010 Braxton and Lewis counties have a lot in common. They're neighbors, and Interstate 79 passes through the heart of each county. Braxton's population is about 15,000; Lewis' about 17,000. Income levels are about the same. ...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201270010 Sun, 27 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201270011 West Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act allows any person a right to inspect or copy any public record of a public body in the state.Do public employees and officials readily offer citizens the “full and complete information...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200201270011 Sun, 27 Jan 2002 00:00:00 -0500