MMC 4200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Flims, Family Educational Rights And Privacy Act
30 Oct 2014
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Sc has not extended a citizen"s constitutional right of access beyond proceedings in the courts, thus journalists depend on statues to gain access to gov"t records and meetings. Fa does not guarantee purblic or press right to obtain info. Journalists have no greater rights of access to info than anyone else. Adopted this as a bipartisen effort to increase public access to fed. docs; the electronic. Freedom of ino acts amended foia to extend the open records law to digital info held by federal agencies. Applies to the executive branch not white house, congress or federal courts. Permits students over the age of 18 (or parents or younger students) to see and correct their. All meeting of any board or commission of any state agency or authority or of any agency or authority of any country, municipal corporation, or political subdivision at wh/offical. Actual cost of copying, not to exceed $. 15 per page, for certified copy.
