State allows release of some material from teacher's letters

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The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that the state's Freedom of Information Commission (FOIC) can order the disclosure of information from personal letters with non-disclosable parts redacted and such action will not violate exemptions under the state's Freedom of Information Act. A board of education superintendent and football coach had sued to prevent the coach's letters from being disclosed, but the court ruled that the disclosure was within the power of the FOIC.

Laws, regulations and rules, Teachers, Letters, Letters (Correspondence)

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Court restricts access to business reports

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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) does not have to allow access to records given to it voluntarily by the Institute for Nuclear Power Operations (INPO). The Critical Mass Energy Project of Public Citizen requested INPO records from the NRC under the Freedom of Information Act, but the court ruled the INPO records qualify as commercial information exempt from access under the act.

Nuclear industry, Access control, Business records

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Kentucky closes complaints about counselor

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The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that information on the sexual misconduct of a psychologist presented before the state's Psychology Board is exempt from disclosure under the state's open records law. The court stated that to disclose the information would violate the right of privacy of not only the psychologist but of those who testified.

Discipline, Confidential communications, Mental health counseling, Psychologists

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