{"id":4361,"date":"2016-02-19T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2016-02-18T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T04:55:08","slug":"public-records-bill-up-for-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/19\/public-records-bill-up-for-consideration\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Records Bill Up For Consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are drafting a position statement for the public records bills before the Massachusetts legislature.\u00a0 The <a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/189\/Senate\/S2120\" href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/189\/Senate\/S2120\">Senate bill<\/a> looks to be better than the House bill, but that may not be saying much.\u00a0 The <a data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.baystateexaminer.com\/articles\/foia-bles-critical-mass-records-reform-bill-takes-two-steps-forward-and-one-step-back\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baystateexaminer.com\/articles\/foia-bles-critical-mass-records-reform-bill-takes-two-steps-forward-and-one-step-back\">Bay State Examiner<\/a> has a good take on our awful public records law and the proposed changes.\u00a0 <a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/mass-public-records-transparency\/\" href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/mass-public-records-transparency\/\">Quartermaster Steve<\/a> also wrote up some observations on our public records laws.<\/p>\n<p>We will discuss what we want to say about these bills at our Monday IRC meeting from 9-10pm.\u00a0 If you want to participate, visit <a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/webchat.pirateirc.net\/\" href=\"https:\/\/webchat.pirateirc.net\/\">https:\/\/webchat.pirateirc.net\/<\/a>, enter your nickname, enter #masspirates for the channel and connect.\u00a0 You can also <a data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/pirateirc.net\/servers\" href=\"http:\/\/pirateirc.net\/servers\">connect via your IRC client<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are drafting a position statement for the public records bills before the Massachusetts legislature.\u00a0 The Senate bill looks to be better than&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-transparency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/statehouse.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-18l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}