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“We follow the law. If something is not protected, it doesn’t matter how many warts are on there.”
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As governors leave office, their administration’s records go to the state library, where they are catalogued and made available for public inspection. The first step is to review records to exclude anything that cannot legally be disclosed, such as state homeland security information, procedures of the governor’s executive protection unit, proprietary business information related to economic development deals, or confidential details of legal settlements, State Librarian Sandra Treadway said. “The day they leave office, they comply with the law, they turn things over to us, but they do not have the time to remove from what they give us anything that might be legally protected against public disclosure,” she said. That review is not, however, aimed at redacting records that might be politically sensitive, Treadway said. “We follow the law,” she said. “If something is not protected, it doesn’t matter how many warts are on there.”
The Washington Post
Concerned drivers who were stuck on Interstate 81 during last week’s snowstorm in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee called 911 looking for answers — but the dispatchers they called were looking for answers themselves. The Bristol Herald Courier filed Freedom of Information Act requests with 911 dispatch offices in Bristol, Virginia, Washington County, Virginia, and Sullivan County, Tennessee, for calls made regarding the interstate standstill. Out of the nearly 3 1/2 hours worth of 911 calls, there were a few takeaways:
Bristol Herald Courier
Warren County is looking into potential overpayments it made to the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority through the help of a financial consultant. After a Friday closed session in which accounting and debt services were discussed, the Board of Supervisors approved a $90,000 expenditure, which will be drawn from its contingency funds, to pay an unidentified financial consultant. The decision comes after Town Finance Director B.J. Wilson said in October that the town is owed by the EDA at least $291,000 stemming from overpayments related to debt service spanning back to at least 2009. While the county has not released any figures on what it may be owed by the EDA, the release states that the county is “hopeful” the consultant will finish the audit process within the next month and determine “specifically what is owed” to both the town and county.
The Northern Virginia Daily
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