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Just don't

Posted 6/1/22 by Megan Rhyne

Yeah, hi, so, um, I pretty much just want to vent. Hope you’re OK with that. 

There’s a lot going on in the world today and I might be processing some subconscious feelings. But it might be that yesterday I had the pleasure of doing two presentations to the constituents of Pat O’Bannon, current chair of the Henrico County Board of Supervisors and member of the VCOG board of directors for at least 10 years.

April's shower of FOIA cases

Posted 5/3/22 by Megan Rhyne

April 2022 was a full month of FOIA cases that were filed or decided

Preserve access to police records

Posted 3/7/22 by Megan Rhyne

The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press weigh in on why the Virginia Senate should reject an attempt to roll back access law passed last year

What I would have said

Posted 2/28/22 by Megan Rhyne

We don't get the chance to respond to things said in committee, so......
 

Pilot & Daily Press on transparency 2022

Posted 1/5/22 by Megan Rhyne

This originally appeared in The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2021.
Reprinted with permission

Agency position on credit card names rankles

Posted 12/20/21 by Megan Rhyne

An FOI advocate and a Virginia FOIA officer agree

Spirits dancing on the head of a pin

Posted 11/22/21 by Megan Rhyne

Spirits dancing on the head of a pin:The public can lose out from rigid adherence to the words on the page

This post originally appeared on VCOG's Substack Newsletter

 

No incentive to stay

Posted 10/25/21 by Megan Rhyne

How the announced closing of a brewery tasting room reminds us of how economic development incentives aren't so easy to track

Confusion over virtual meetings

Posted 10/19/21 by Megan Rhyne

Virginia state agencies are giving conflicting reasons for why they can or can't meet virtually. Here's the straight dope.

Don't be so suspicious

Posted 9/28/21 by Megan Rhyne

I use this slide in my presentations on FOIA. On one side of it is a snarling, ferocious, uniformed man pinning the head of another man against a wall. On the other side is the (original) Gladys Kravitz, the nosy next-door neighbor of Samantha and Darrin (both Darrins) Stephenson on Bewitched.

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