I imagine the following article will be of interest to many!

The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld a lower Court's decision that a community, under the state's Freedom of Information Act, must release "a copy of all GIS data concerning orthophotography, arc info coverages, structured query language server databases, and all documentation created to support and define coverages for the arc info data set."  The Town of Greenwich had initially refused to release the data, arguing that "that the data requested by Whitaker was exempt from disclosure pursuant to General Statutes
§ 1-210 (b) (5) (A),3 which provides an exemption from disclosure for trade secrets, and § 1-210 (b) (20), 4 which exempts from disclosure information that would compromise the security of an information technology system." 
 
In case you're interested, the CT Supreme Court's ruling is located at http://www.jud.state.ct.us/external/supapp/Cases/AROcr/CR274/274CR82.pdf.

Anyone familiar with similar rulings, relative to GIS data, in other states?
 
Paul R. Bergeron
City Clerk
229 Main Street
Nashua, NH 03060
Telephone: 603/589-3010
Fax: 603/589-3029
http://www.gonashua.com/

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