In Digital Age, Sunshine Laws Turn Hazy

Autor/in	Fleming, Nora
Titel	In Digital Age, Sunshine Laws Turn Hazy
Quelle	In: Education Week, 32 (2013) 28, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Boards of Education; Compliance (Legal); Meetings; Electronic Mail; State Legislation; Access to Information; Board of Education Policy; California; Delaware; Florida; Maryland; Missouri; New Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausschuss; Meeting; Tagung; Elektronischer Briefkasten; Landesrecht; Kalifornien
Abstract	School board members are struggling to interpret laws that govern where and how they do business now that as many conversations take place digitally as they do face to face. As online and digital interactions increase, so too does public concern that officials have more opportunities to violate state open-meetings and open-records laws meant to prevent them from communicating secretly. In general, states' open-meetings or "sunshine" laws specify what government meetings must be held in public, and open-records laws determine what documents need to be publicly accessible. But state regulations differ on the types of communication allowed between officials, whom the laws apply to, and how much information the public should have access to. While most states consider a "meeting" to be communication among a quorum of officials, in Florida, school board members cannot use any form of back-and-forth electronic communication between just two or more officials. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10