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Judge: Vermont Attorney General must pay $66,000 in legal fees for records...
Attorney General TJ Donovan. File photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger A Vermont judge has ruled the office of Attorney General TJ Donovan must pay nearly $66,000 in legal fees in three cases in which it...
View ArticleLet the Sun Shine In (On Government)
Editor’s note: This oped is by Tom Kearney, managing editor of the Stowe Reporter. This is Sunshine Week in America, a press-organized annual observance to stress the importance of openness in...
View ArticleClifton: In public records disputes, it’s lose, lose for the taxpayer
Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Doug Clifton, the retired editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and former executive editor of the Miami Herald. He is a member of the Vermont Journalism Trust board,...
View ArticleDunbar: A one-word change would bring back government accountability
Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Bethany Dunbar, the editor of the Barton Chronicle. Vermont law says people who work for the government, including our towns, school districts, and state agencies, must...
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Going public 101: Condos takes his transparency spiel on the road
Secretary of State Jim Condos is finishing up his "Vermont Transparency Tour" this fall before the Legislature reviews exemptions to the public records law in January. VTD/Josh Larkin"Editor’s note:...
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Committee considers release of records about egregious health care errors
Peg Flory. VTD/Josh Larkin A provision in Vermont law that shields reported egregious medical events from the public is drawing fire. Under the Patient Safety Surveillance and Improvement System, some...
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Vermont Supreme Court ruling increases police accountability
Editor’s note: This story was written by Cindy Ellen Hill, a law and policy writer and attorney in Middlebury. The Vermont Supreme Court chambers The Vermont Supreme Court ruled last week that...
View ArticleAs AG, Donovan says he would press for public disclosure of information about...
Chittenden County State’s Attorney TJ Donovan today laid out a plan for more open public access to information relating to criminal investigations in Vermont. Donovan said current law in Vermont has a...
View ArticleDonovan: Make records of criminal investigations presumptively public
Editor’s note: This position statement is by TJ Donovan, the state’s attorney for Chittenden County who is a candidate for attorney general in the Democratic primary. Vermont Public Records law exempts...
View ArticleJeremy Hansen: Access to legislative communication is public’s right
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jeremy Hansen, an assistant professor of computer science at Norwich University and a member of the Berlin Selectboard. In a recent Front Porch Forum post, email...
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Legal settlement extends public records laws to out-of-state prison contractor
A court case settled this week involving access to records held by a private out-of-state prison contractor could have implications for other public records in Vermont. After more than two-and-a-half...
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UVM student’s racial comments were taken as a threat
The Howe Library on the University of Vermont campus. File photo by Cory Dawson/VTDigger Racist comments that led to charges against a University of Vermont student two years ago included a statement...
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Officials: Public records request straining understaffed Norwich town office
The resident behind a pile of public records requests said the situation could have been avoided if town staff or Selectboard members had answered questions from residents about town operations. Photo...
View ArticleHoward Hoye: ‘Threatening’ anonymous letter discussed by Guilford Selectboard
This commentary is written by Howard F. Hoye, a resident of Guilford. The information reported on this subject in the Brattleboro Reformer article printed on Aug. 10 is relatively one-sided with some...
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Anne Galloway: In EB-5 case, high court ducks chance to counter sweeping...
This commentary is by Anne Galloway, the founder and editor-at-large of VTDigger, who represented the news organization in the lawsuit for state records about the Jay Peak scandal. Ever since the...
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