An even less informal opinion offered by another Executive Director of a Virginia FOIA related non-profit alliance...





This is an even less formal opinion from an Executive Director of a Virginia FOIA related non-profit. It doesn't really matter who, or which one, because it is again non-binding, but interesting that essentially they've reached the exact same conclusion. Just like the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council, this Executive Director also says that their advice is for custodians to respond to out-of-state requesters. Hilarious! Even if every expert in the world was of the same opinion, they'd likely still keep on the same path. Oh well, it is what it is. For now, I'm just going to continue to gather evidence and build my case. Already off to a good start!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The University of Virginia apparently hates Freedom of Press...

Image
It's happening again. The University of Virginia is ignoring follow-up inquiries on multiple Freedom of Information Act requests that I have submitted going back to February of 2020.  The hill that the University of Virginia wants to die on is the "You aren't a resident" hill. Meanwhile, the they are completely ignoring my First Amendment guaranteed right of Freedom of the Press. Despite multiple follow-up emails, UVA doesn't seem interested in following the Virginia FOIA law. I hope they have a change of heart because there are other legal remedies available. Denial of my FOIA requests is in my opinion a creative way to stop the public from getting information about the government they are paying for and which belongs to them. Public servants believe that they can use law to actually stop the public from learning what exactly they are doing with the power they have been given by us. Foolish. 
Read more

My advisory opinion from the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council is in...

Image
The Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council has weighed in with an advisory opinion on the scenario I laid out regarding the city of Charlottesville, Virginia's absurd denial of my First Amendment rights. The opinion was written by Alan Gerhardt, Esq., the Executive Director of the Council. Essentially what the opinion says is that no, the city of Charlottesville can't do what they are doing to me, but in the same breath, yes, they can keep doing it until you force them not to, through legal action (assuming a judge rules in my favor.) They are more or less thumbing their nose at me saying, "Go ahead and do something, we dare you. LOL!" We may get to that, but first, I need to continue to gather facts. In the short time since the denial, I've gathered some interesting ones that likely won't look very good for the city of Charlottesville who coincidentally won't even acknowledge emails from me any longer, or at least they haven'...
Read more