The BOT is smart enough to use personal email so it isn't subject to open records laws.
The BoT does not give a crap about open record laws and just flat ignores them as it pleases.
And yes, it is packed with crooked lawyers who know how not to leave a paper trail, but point one still stands.
(12-10-2015 09:34 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]The BOT is smart enough to use personal email so it isn't subject to open records laws.
That's not accurate...courts have ruled that any email account used to conduct or convey public busines is subject to open records laws:
Quote:Emailing from home: Do you ever send emails regarding municipal business from your personal email account? That email is a record subject to the open records law. A risk to keep in mind when using your home computer and your personal email account to do government business, though the risk may seem remote: it is possible that your home computer could be seized as part of a lawsuit involving the municipality, even though you have no personal role in the litigation.
http://www.bakkenorman.com/emails-and-th...cords-law/
Quote:University of Illinois senior administrators used personal email accounts to discuss sensitive and controversial issues, and then failed to disclose the records when they were requested by the public...The employees' use of personal email accounts to conduct university business raises questions about transparency and secrecy at the state's flagship public institution. What's more, U. of I. employees had been previously instructed that using private devices would not be a way to avoid public records laws and would be subject to disclosure, according to a 2012 employee newsletter from the university's ethics office.
"If you are conducting University business (including teaching) through a personal email account (e.g., gmail, hotmail, yahoo), then the University-related communications are subject to (the Freedom of Information Act), regardless of whether they are generated on private equipment or in personal accounts," the newsletter stated.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-un...story.html
Did al.com or any other media here make open records requests of BOT emails during the fiasco? If so, how were they not acted on?
(12-10-2015 10:41 AM)hooverblazer Wrote: [ -> ]Did al.com or any other media here make open records requests of BOT emails during the fiasco? If so, how were they not acted on?
John Solomon and Archibald both stated that they made open records request and were given the run around until the Direct Communications letter broke and even after that they were given bits and pieces. Alabama's open records request law has NO teeth behind it. Paper Tiger law.
I think that one of the reasons LSU officials responded so quickly to the open records request is because the emails showed they had not made decision to fire Miles and then reversed it as had been reported in the press. In other words releasing the emails was a good thing for them.
You have to wonder how quickly the would have responded if the emails made them look bad.
(12-10-2015 10:13 AM)UAB Band Dad Wrote: [ -> ]The BoT does not give a crap about open record laws and just flat ignores them as it pleases.
And yes, it is packed with crooked lawyers who know how not to leave a paper trail, but point one still stands.
As we have learned over the years, the system BOT runs UA differently than is done in other universities & states. They and their Athletic dept. pour millions of "Bama Bucks" into other state's school's FB & BB programs while denying support for instate programs (They supplied millions to FAU and USM who UAB must play while being strapped for funds).