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	<title>Internet Open Records Project</title>
	<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org</link>
	<description>The IORP is made up of educators, political activists, and computer professionals who believe access to public information is essential to a free and open democratic society.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Norway Publishes All Tax Returns Online</title>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2009/10/23/norway-publishes-all-tax-returns-online/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2009/10/23/norway-publishes-all-tax-returns-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Fish</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Personal Behavior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Financial Records]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A society might be more trusting if citizens could see the tax returns of all their fellow taxpayers.  Norway is doing exactly this.
To be complete, Norway might also publish the citizens receiving taxpayer funded services.
Some possibilities ramifications to consider:
- Norweigian Tim Geigthners and other tax avoiders might be turned in by their neighbors.
- Those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today We Celebrate &#8220;Jimmy Justice&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/08/04/today-we-celebrate-jimmy-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/08/04/today-we-celebrate-jimmy-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Fish</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Self Organizing Citizens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us who tackle the taxpayer funded bureacracies often experience the arrogance and hypocrisy of so called civil servants first hand.
A New York activist who goes by the handle &#8220;Jimmy Justice&#8221; captures bureacratic arrogance and hypocrisy on video for all the world to see.
Our personal favorite is this New York Board of Education employee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Cities Play Secret Squirrel</title>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/07/21/washington-cities-play-secret-squirrel/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/07/21/washington-cities-play-secret-squirrel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Fish</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Open Records]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[






Enron avoided public scrutiny of many of its shady business dealings by placing them out of public view in off balance sheet entities.
Now the employees of Washington taxpayers are using a similar ruse to place their  activities out of public view with an entity called Association of Washington Cities. 
The first item of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Houston Chronicle Posts 81,000 Public Employees</title>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/07/09/houston-chronicle-posts-81000-public-employees/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/07/09/houston-chronicle-posts-81000-public-employees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Fish</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Houston Chronicle has posted a computerized database of 81,000 public employees of various local entities including City of Houston, Harris County, and the Houston Independent School District.
Some readers have objected to the publication of names and salaries as a violation of privacy.
Most readers have argued that public employees work for the public and are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diddle a Boy, You Must Wear a Sign</title>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/03/25/diddle-a-boy-you-must-wear-a-sign/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/03/25/diddle-a-boy-you-must-wear-a-sign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Fish</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Open Records]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sex Offenders]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leroy Schad molested an 11 year old boy.  Now District Judge Ron Svaty has sentenced him to five years of probation and house arrest, and ordered him to prominently post signs declaring his sex offender status
Schad said the loneliness and isolation imposed by the house arrest are the toughest to deal with.
Full Story
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		<title>FEMA Dodges Open Records Requests</title>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/03/19/fema-dodges-open-records-requests/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/03/19/fema-dodges-open-records-requests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Fish</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Open Records]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Government Control of Information]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Government bureacracies implement a standard set of dodges to avoid the accountability that comes from disclosure.
In its dealings with FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), The Advocate newspaper has been the victim of two of the most common ploys to avoid disclosure:
1. Charge extraordinary amounts for copying,
2. Provide information in the most difficult to use for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust Me, The Water Isn&#8217;t Poisoned</title>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/03/11/trust-me-the-water-isnt-poisoned/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/03/11/trust-me-the-water-isnt-poisoned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Fish</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Health &amp; Medical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck said he would not name the lone pharmaceutical chemical found in the city’s drinking water.
Once again a &#8220;people&#8217;s servant&#8221; concludes that he knows what&#8217;s best for you.
The Open Records Project remembers similar arguments against release of sex offender names and addresses.  &#8220;Trust us&#8221; the bureacrats said.  Of course we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Adds More Sex Offender Info</title>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/02/24/texas-adds-more-sex-offender-info/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/02/24/texas-adds-more-sex-offender-info/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Fish</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Open Records]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sex Offenders]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Government Control of Information]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Department of Public Safety plans to update its online sex offender registry this spring to let people know where offenders work or go to school.  https://records.txdps.state.tx.us/DPS_WEB/Sor/index.aspx
Anyone can go to the state&#8217;s site to look up a person by name or ZIP code. The information includes physical descriptions, photos, offenses, aliases and legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Districts Hide Sex Offender Teachers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/02/18/districts-hide-sex-offender-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/02/18/districts-hide-sex-offender-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Fish</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Open Records]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/02/18/districts-hide-sex-offender-teachers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the past five years, nearly half of Oregon teachers disciplined for sexual misconduct with a child left their school districts with confidential agreements. 
The Oregon response is sadly similar to that of the Texas Youth Commission and Catholic Archdiocese across the country.  They all hid sex offenders so as to not cause inconvenience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DUI Convicts to Get Yellow Plates</title>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/02/12/dui-convicts-to-get-yellow-plates/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/02/12/dui-convicts-to-get-yellow-plates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Fish</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Personal Behavior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health &amp; Medical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not scarlet, and it&#8217;s not a letter, but a bill before the state Legislature that would require drunk drivers to put florescent yellow license plates on their cars makes quite a few think of author Nathaniel Hawthorne&#8217;s tale of Hester Prynne wearing the scarlet letter A for adultery&#8230; and wearing the shame.
Open Records works [...]]]></description>
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