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Rep. Sarah Copeland Hanzas, D-Bradford, Deputy Secretary of State Chris Winters and Montpelier City Clerk John Odum shared similar political values but found room to carve out distinctions.
The payment ends a long legal battle between the news organization and the state that led to the release of more than 100 documents, including a confidential agreement reached with the former director of the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield.
Ed Adams was fired as the head of Vermont's largest prison following a complaint alleging abusive management practices and sexually offensive language, according to documents released to VTDigger.
Sen. Jeanette White, chair of Government Operations, disagrees with a Supreme Court ruling disallowing fees for 'inspections.'
Secretary of State Jim Condos says Donovan is using a ‘twisted interpretation’ to charge for copies for taking cellphone photos.
I hope our legislators will join me in making it our shared New Year’s resolution to protect and expand access to public records in 2020.
Facilitating access to government records does not divert from our government’s work, it is our government’s work.
An index of documents related to the dismissal of a corrections superintendent that a judge ordered the DOC provide to VTDigger lacks vital information, the news organization argues.
You’d think that the Vermont state government’s top lawyer would have respect for the law.
The case centers around the question of whether a request for viewing bodycam footage is treated the same as a request for a copy of the footage.
The court recently released an opinion that made it clear that the Public Access to Court Records Rules is for court records while the Public Records Act is for legislative and executive branch records.
The GEO Group, which housed Vermont inmates in a Michigan prison for two years, made documents about prisoner lawsuits public as part of a public records suit.
Judge Mary Miles Teachout ordered that the corrections department must release summary information about documents related to the removal of Edward Adams from his post as superintendent of Southern State prison.
