I'm trying to figure out whether House Bill 1030 is nice, nefarious, or even necessary. HB 1030 would add the following text to our statutes governing public school teacher evaluations: Any record or document, regardless of physical form, created by…
Posts tagged as “openness”
Attorney General Marty Jackley announced yesterday that he had obtained a court order allowing him to release documents from his investigation of Richard Benda to state Auditor General Marty Guindon. Let's be clear: this release is not a step toward…
Northern State University has been raising some challenges to accessing records relating to the state's EB-5 program, which operated on the NSU campus under the banner of the South Dakota International Business Institute until the end of 2009. But in…
The Aberdeen American News is the last place to look for anything like the "sensationalizing" that Attorney General Marty Jackley claims prevents him from releasing details about his investigation into former GOED chief Richard Benda's death. On today's editorial page,…
In Lake County news, my grapevine jingles that Democrat Roberta "Bobbi" Janke is running for re-election as Lake County auditor. Janke won the auditor's seat in 2010, winning the Democrat primary 88% to 12% over Nicole Schleuter, then fending off…
A friend investigating the GOED/EB-5/Benda-gate offers the following price list for public-records requests from various state agencies: state agency charge for fulfilling public-records request SD Department of Transportation $00.00 SD Auditor $00.00 SD Department of Labor $20.00 per hr. +…
The Aberdeen American News looks at missing state documents and balky Republican legislators and wonders if the reviews and audit the Governor has ordered will produce the answers we South Dakotans deserve. I offer one shred of hope that a…
Ken Kramer's public-records tussle with the Department of Social Services shows South Dakota state government's unhealthy addiction to secrecy. The Florida man made a simple request last summer: he wanted to know the name of every doctor South Dakota had…