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FOIA in full
on VCOG's website
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The full text of the 2018-19 Freedom of Information Act is posted on VCOG's website. Many thanks to VCOG's 2018 Laurence E. Richardson Legal Fellow, Andrew Abraham, for compiling and highlighting the changes to this year's law.
Between 2012 and 2017, defense spending in Virginia fell 20%. This year, however, the Pentagon’s budget is up, and just in time the state has introduced a website where communities can find out what that means for them.
WVTF
The move toward encryption is setting up a debate over who should control the flow of information, and when. Encryption protects sensitive communications, such as an officer’s location or a victim’s date of birth, said Roanoke County Police Chief Howard Hall. Hall said he thinks officers’ safety and individuals’ privacy outweigh the public’s right to know what is happening. “Both of those concerns are valid,” said Megan Rhyne, executive director of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government, a nonprofit that advocates transparency in government. “Neither of those concerns has risen to a level of necessitating cutting off access.”
The Roanoke Times
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