FOIA in the courts

Friday in Warren County, a judge ruled that the Department of Social Services there did violate FOIA, but that the violations were “technical” and “minimal.” The judge did award some attorneys’ fees to the plaintiff. And earlier this week, a Prince William judge again rescheduled the hearing date on a FOIA case involving the county school system’s visitor identification software. Read the judge’s letter ruling in the Warren County case, and read the defendant’s response brief in the Prince William case. And here’s an editorial related to the Prince William case.