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Access with attitude [electronic resource] : an advocate's guide to freedom of information in Ohio / David Marburger and Karl Idsvoog ; with a foreword by Doug Clifton.

By: Marburger, David.
Contributor(s): Idsvoog, Karl | Clifton, Doug | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2011Description: xix, 342 p. : ill.Subject(s): Public records -- Access control -- Ohio | Public records -- Law and legislation -- Ohio | Freedom of information -- OhioGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 342.77108/53 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Unlawful obstacles : conditions that officials can't impose -- Fees and other conditions that officials can impose -- Strategies for requesting public records -- Electronic public records -- How to fight delay and denial without suing -- Law enforcement investigatory records : know the limits of the barrier that people encounter most -- The stealth exemption -- Privacy -- Court records -- Privatizing government -- Records retention : limits on administrators' discretion to destroy records -- Suing for access to public records and winning.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unlawful obstacles : conditions that officials can't impose -- Fees and other conditions that officials can impose -- Strategies for requesting public records -- Electronic public records -- How to fight delay and denial without suing -- Law enforcement investigatory records : know the limits of the barrier that people encounter most -- The stealth exemption -- Privacy -- Court records -- Privatizing government -- Records retention : limits on administrators' discretion to destroy records -- Suing for access to public records and winning.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.