Should execution drugs be a state secret?
© Photographer1773 | Dreamstime Stock Photos & Stock Free Images By Deborah Fisher, Executive Director of Tennessee Coalition for Open Government Does the public have a right to know about the...
View ArticleTennessee Supreme Court delays execution (update on drug secrecy issue)
The Tennessee Supreme Court today reset the execution date for Billy Ray Irick to Oct. 7, 2014, noting the issues raised in a case in Davidson County Chancery Court over the state's new one-drug lethal...
View ArticleThe Tennessean takes on secrecy of execution drugs
The Tennessean exposes the secrecy of execution drugs in a front-page story in today's Sunday edition. State lawmakers last year passed an exemption to the Tennessee Open Records Act that allows the...
View ArticleAppeals court: TSSAA subject to Public Records Act
The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association meets the standards of a "functional equivalent" of government and therefore is subject to the Tennessee Public Records Act, an appeals court in...
View ArticleBehind the TSSAA ruling: Preserving public oversight over government functions
An Appeals Court finds that regulating high school sports is a government function, so the regulator should be subject to open records law. Should the agency that regulates high school athletic...
View ArticleAppeals Court hears arguments on reach of execution drug secrecy
The Tennessean covered the arguments before the Court of Appeals Monday concerning an exemption to the Tennessee Public Records Act passed in 2013 that makes the source of execution drugs confidential....
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