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	<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>
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		<title>Diddle a Boy, You Must Wear a Sign</title>
		<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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		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/03/25/diddle-a-boy-you-must-wear-a-sign/</link>
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		<title>FEMA Dodges Open Records Requests</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/03/19/fema-dodges-open-records-requests/</link>
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		<title>Trust Me, The Water Isn&#8217;t Poisoned</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/03/11/trust-me-the-water-isnt-poisoned/</link>
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		<title>Texas Adds More Sex Offender Info</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/02/24/texas-adds-more-sex-offender-info/</link>
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		<title>Districts Hide Sex Offender Teachers</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/02/18/districts-hide-sex-offender-teachers/</link>
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		<title>DUI Convicts to Get Yellow Plates</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/02/12/dui-convicts-to-get-yellow-plates/</link>
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		<title>Governor&#8217;s Attempt to Hide Records Foiled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Washburn learned that the Texas governor&#8217;s office automatically destroys virtually all of its emails every seven days.  A cynic might conclude that this policy is an attempt by the State to avoid the embarassment of open records disclosure required by law.
Mr. Washburn responded by writing a computer program that automatically requests emails every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/01/28/governors-attempt-to-hide-records-foiled/</link>
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		<title>Governor to Make Criminal Records Secret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People with felony criminal records would be able to more quickly shield that information from prospective employers under legislation filed today by Gov. Deval Patrick.  
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino hailed Patrick’s proposals as &#8220;much needed.&#8221;
&#8220;Ex-offenders often have little or no support upon release, in effect giving them life sentences by denying them opportunities for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/01/12/governor-to-make-criminal-records-secret/</link>
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		<title>Oregon Puts Insane Sex Offenders in Residence</title>
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The State of Oregon has placed criminally insane sex offenders in a residence at 177 N. 29th Ave., Cornelius.  The program run by Luke-Dorf, a nonprofit Tigard-based mental-health provider, handles only sex offenders of the class &#8220;guilty except for insanity.&#8221;
Jerry Farstad, incarcerated for sodomy and sexual penetration with a foreign object,was quoted as saying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/01/05/oregon-puts-insane-sex-offenders-in-residence/</link>
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		<title>FOIA Responses May Get Faster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In one of his last decisions of the year on Monday, December 31, 2007, President Bush signed into law the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reform bill (S. 2488).  
For the first time, there will be a penalty for agencies who do not comply with the FOIA’s time limits.
Those of us who make open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.openrecords.org/2008/01/03/foia-responses-may-get-faster/</link>
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