Lobbyists beware: judge rules metadata is public record
The Arizona state Supreme Court has ruled that the metadata attached to public records is itself public, and cannot be withheld in response to a public records request. Such a ruling on file metadata may not seem like a huge win for open government advocates, but it definitely is, given that metadata has unmasked more than one lobbyist’s effort to influence Congress. In the Arizona case, a police officer had been demoted in 2006 after reporting “serious police misconduct” to his superiors.
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Lobbyists beware: judge rules metadata is public record
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