open records request

It appears that despite the desire of William Howard Hobbs to put the blame for AJ McCall's records being released onto the THP and Bredesen, it was the House Political Director,

Bill Hobbs' persistence with the Bredesen administration regarding an open records request has finally paid off.

Bill Hobbs finally got to see the video he was so desperately in search of:

Lola Potter, the public information officer for the Tennessee Department of Finance & Administration who has stonewalled me on my open-records request for video shot at the governor's mansion underground ballroom blasting site since mid-March, finally caved in today and agreed to let me view the v

Tom Humphrey had an update on the story involving TNGOP Chairwoman Robin Smith's "private" letter to the Governor being released to the media.

The nonpartisan Tennessee Center for Policy Research has filed

It has now been 100 days since I made a rather routine open-records request to the Bredesen administration, and specifically Department of Finance & Administration public information officer Lola Potter, for access to the video taken of blasting (for that underground ballroom) at the governor's ma

It has now been 52 days since I made a rather routine open-records request to the Bredesen administration, and specifically Department of Finance & Administration public information officer Lola Potter, for the video taken of blasting (for that underground ballroom) at the governor's mansion const

John Rodgers reports on the open records bill that passed this morning in the state senate:

Among other items, the bill gives governmental entities five days to respond to open records requests. There currently is no time limit.

One of the interesting things that came out of yesterday’s iTunes tax revelation was that it was also revealed to a wider audience that the Department of Revenue apparently shar