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Nov 26, 2022

State Agencies and FOAA. recent report by AG's office on (1) recent improvements to FOAA and (2) nuisance FOAAs and threatening language by requesters

The November 17, 2022 meeting of the Maine Legislature's  Right To Know Advisory Committee featured an eight minute presentation by Brenda Kielty the Maine attorney general's "Public Access Ombudsman".

Kielty's  8 minute presentation is followed by ten minutes of questions from members of the RTK advisory committee  Click here for the 18minute audio mp3  See also    One page document in her presentation.

Kielty  discusses state agencies' experiences with FOAA requests, regarding both  efficacy of the new 1st two hours of search free  policy and  the amount of threats or disruptive requests .

Neal Goldberg of Maine Municipal Association also gave a presentation to the committee at this meeting.       Read his survey of Maine towns' experience with FOAA requests,

Three public commenters also spoke at the 11/17/22 event  Here are their written comments 


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