FOIA Archives - The Dominion Post https://www.dominionpost.com/tag/foia/ Morgantown Area News Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:31:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.dominionpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-81287318_3042289439136500_6974497821747576832_n-32x32.png FOIA Archives - The Dominion Post https://www.dominionpost.com/tag/foia/ 32 32 Editorial Encore: Sunshine Week has ended but our work never does https://www.dominionpost.com/2024/03/19/editorial-encore-sunshine-week-has-ended-but-our-work-never-does/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 03:04:00 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=328409 EDITOR’S NOTE: This editorial has been adapted from one that originally published March 19, 2023. Sunshine Week — a celebration of access to public, particularly government, information — ended last […]

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]]> What’s wilder than Minhaj’s tales? https://www.dominionpost.com/2023/10/09/whats-wilder-than-minhajs-tales/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:02:00 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=305221 The FBI surveillance my Muslim community actually endured by Assia Boundaoui Last month, an article in the New Yorker detailed discrepancies in comedian Hasan Minhaj’s standup specials. In one story, […]

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]]> Sunshine Week is over but our work isn’t https://www.dominionpost.com/2023/03/18/sunshine-week-is-over-but-our-work-isnt/ Sun, 19 Mar 2023 03:04:00 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=279534 Sunshine Week — a celebration of access to public, particularly government, information — ended yesterday. Most years, we would have highlighted Sunshine Week either before it started or while it […]

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]]> Free speech and press need freedom of information https://www.dominionpost.com/2022/03/19/free-speech-and-press-need-freedom-of-information/ Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:59:00 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=227476 by Kevin Goldberg “The right to speak and the right to print, without the right to know, are pretty empty.” These are the words of Harold Cross, author of “The […]

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]]> City sued for releasing victim’s name in unredacted sexual harassment report https://www.dominionpost.com/2021/04/07/city-sued-for-releasing-victims-name-in-unredacted-sexual-harassment-report/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:36:41 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=189094 In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the City of Morgantown released a sexual harassment incident report without redacting the victim’s name, which was then posted online. For […]

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]]> Lawyer sues sheriff, commission https://www.dominionpost.com/2019/12/23/lawyer-sues-sheriff-commission/ Mon, 23 Dec 2019 14:57:49 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=134734 A Wheeling-based attorney is suing Monongalia County Sheriff Perry Palmer and the County Commission over a denied Freedom of Information Act request. Robert McCoid filed the suit in Monongalia County […]

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]]> Bluefield man arrested for trespassing at WVU Board of Governor’s meeting https://www.dominionpost.com/2019/07/31/bluefield-man-arrested-for-trespassing-at-wvu-board-of-governors-meeting/ Thu, 01 Aug 2019 02:40:17 +0000 https://dominionpostcom.bigscoots-staging.com/?p=115715 A Bluefield man, who is suing West Virginia University for denying his Freedom of Information Request Act for documents explaining why he was not admitted to the law school, was […]

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