This is not an early April Fool's joke. That is, at least the article is real. It still seems slightly bizarre to me. I can think of far better uses of tax dollars (paying someone to dig holes and fill them in again would qualify). A much longer version of the same AP article is here: http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/news/032005_APstate_publicrecords.html -Declan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Ask for public records, get sued Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:25:45 -0500 From: Ben <bmw@private> To: declan@private http://www.wral.com/news/4301487/detail.html --- RALEIGH -- North Carolina cities and other government agencies are pursuing the authority to sue citizens who ask to see public records. Lawyers for local governments and the University of North Carolina are talking about pushing for a new state law. That law would allow pre-emptive lawsuits against citizens, news organizations and private companies to clarify the law when there is a dispute about providing records or opening meetings. _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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