P-I reporter Daniel Lathrop is also disappointed with Mrs. Gregoire's choice of Seattle City Attorney Tom Carr to chair the state Sunshine Committee, calling Carr an "open records foe"
As an investigative reporter, I file a lot of public records requests. It's often how we are able to find out when officials aren't doing their jobs. [Carr] is known for supporting even obviously illegal city efforts to avoid disclosure ... Carr, in keeping with municipal bureaucrats' and elected officials' long-running resentment about having to provide the public with access to information under their control, has aided Mayor Greg Nickels in efforts to hamper public disclosure of documents.Lathrop posts a letter from Nickels urging Gregoire to appoint someone from the City of Seattle, because they are experienced balancing public disclosure obligations "against the privacy rights of the individuals we seek to serve".
The only "privacy rights" at issue is the desire of government officials to avoid having to explain themselves to the public.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 19, 2007 12:19 PM | Email ThisI have a theory about Gregoire's recent appointments- she's going to steal the next election one kickback at a time.
Posted by: Andy on August 19, 2007 04:10 PM(a) Descriptions of its central and field organization and the established places at which, the employees from whom, and the methods whereby, the public may obtain information, make submittals or requests, or obtain copies of agency decisions;
(b) Statements of the general course and method by which its operations are channeled and determined, including the nature and requirements of all formal and informal procedures available;
(c) Rules of procedure;
(d) Substantive rules of general applicability adopted as authorized by law, and statements of general policy or interpretations of general applicability formulated and adopted by the agency; and
(e) Each amendment or revision to, or repeal of any of the foregoing.
(2) Except to the extent that he has actual and timely notice of the terms thereof, a person may not in any manner be required to resort to, or be adversely affected by, a matter required to be published or displayed and not so published or displayed.
Mr.Carr did nothing....
So where is Seattles 9 plant limit posted you eye rolling idiot.
Its not.. then patients don't have to resort to it.. So it can't be legally enforced....
Mr Carr ,Why are you enforcing illegal plant limits and then trying to cover it up.
I know you are out there somewhere rolling your eyes.
Mr Carr You are unfit for public office.
It's in the Seattle Times today
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2003842627_nobleed19.html
A few key comments in the article:
Under SB 5498 -- a governor's-request bill passed by large majorities in both houses -- unless a tax levy says it is temporary, its authority is permanent. So says the Department of Revenue in an official memo to county assessors.
King County Assessor Scott Noble, who drew our attention to this, has looked over the 11 property-tax measures that will be on county ballots Tuesday: two for King County parks, two for Redmond, one for a hospital district and six for fire districts.
"All of them are permanent increases in new levy capacity," he says.
"It's permanent," Noble says. "In 15 years in this office, I have never seen anything like it."
Noble wonders if legislators who voted for this knew what they were doing. So do we.
"It's permanent," Noble says. "In 15 years in this office, I have never seen anything like it."
Noble wonders if legislators who voted for this knew what they were doing. So do we.
Ya gotta love these tax and spenders in Olympia, they are after you big time in this season of permanent tax increases.
In high school civics I learned that those are folks without a dog in the hunt, and whose work and income does not depend on the outcome.
Since she only appointed ONE citizen, and three folks with a dog in the hunt, she needs a remedial civics lession.
This group is stacked with folks who are no friend of the light of day on their public dealings.
For shame, Governor.
Posted by: The Geezer on August 20, 2007 01:10 PM