Bruce --
You either struck it big ... or struck a nerve.
Don is posting this to his haunts.
I subscribed to the [http://listserv.syr.edu/archives/foi-l.html]
FOI [state and local freedom of information] list, and
it came in from there.
Congrats!
Douglas K. King
Records Manager Freedom of Information Officer
Sedgwick County Division of Information and Operations
Records Management Services
Sedgwick County Courthouse 525 North Main Wichita KS 67203
316 660-9846 FAX 316 660-3274 dking at sedgwick.gov
http://www.sedgwickcounty.org
"Sedgwick County ... working for you"
http://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0507c&L=recmgmt-l&D=1&O=D&P=1400
Thank you Sedgwick County for working for all !
If you would, please take more seriously the
good records management principles at
http://www.arma.org/about/overview/ethics.cfm
Too many records managers are intimidated by having the
very same professional principles invoked. Relative to
interacting with the people interested in,
concerned with or affected by access to
public information, access to public records,
access to public archives.
There needs to be more recognition of how
problematical, how intimidating it can be for people
with the difficulties in attempting access to municipal
public records.
Change is needed in the records management professional
enclaves for improving the organizational culture of
the records management profession.
Advocates of records management principles need to
focus more on FOI as the laudable civic matter it is
when the people are willing to learn more about their
municipalities by reading the grey literature
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/march04/graylit.htmhttp://greynet.org
Cc:
Kansas Attorney General
http://www.accesskansas.org/ksag/OPEN
Kansas State Archives
http://www.kshs.org/government/
Kansas Counties' Commissions and Advisory Boards
http://www.kansascounties.org/
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