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		<title>ISU open meeting conflict escalates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Idaho Freedom Foundation has sent a letter to the Idaho attorney general asking him to take enforcement action against Idaho State University for an alleged violation of the stateâ€™s open meeting law.


In the letter, Idaho Freedom Foundation Executive Director Wayne Hoffman tells Attorney General Lawrence Wasden he is not asking him to extract civil penalties. He says is he is merely hopeful that through the stateâ€™s action, â€œgovernment transparency and openness will be restored at ISU.â€


<em> From the Idaho State Journal</em>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openidaho.org/?p=271</link>
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		<title>Closed city meeting violated law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SALMON -- A May 24 meeting of the Salmon City Council that was called in order to fire Salmon Police Chief Jim Spain violated Idaho's open meeting law, according to an investigation of the incident by an independent prosecutor.
 
"It is my determination that this meeting was not properly conducted," Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney John Bujak wrote in a letter to Lemhi County Prosecutor Bruce Withers and Salmon City Attorney John McKinney.

<em>From the Post Register</em>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openidaho.org/?p=265</link>
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		<title>U.S. Supreme Court upholds public records law in Washington signatures case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The state of Washington won today in the U.S. Supreme Court - and so did Idaho - as the high court upheld Washingtonâ€™s Public Records Act and its requirement that signatures on a referendum petition be public, not secret. Idaho has similar laws, and joined 22 other states in filing â€œfriend of the courtâ€ briefs backing Washingtonâ€™s position. The group â€œProtect Marriage Washingtonâ€ sued to prevent the release of the names of those who signed Referendum 71, the stateâ€™s unsuccessful measure that sought to overturn a same-sex domestic partnership law, arguing that the Washington public records law was unconstitutional because making the signersâ€™ names public could subject them to harassment for exercising their right to free speech.

<em>From Eye on Boise/The Spokesman-Review
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		<link>http://www.openidaho.org/?p=261</link>
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		<title>Nampa: Canyon County prosecutor John Bujak shouldn&#8217;t profit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Prosecutor John Bujak's efforts to protect the privacy of his $598,000 agreement to handle misdemeanor prosecutions for Nampa got more complicated Thursday.

A few hours after a hearing on a lawsuit seeking to force Bujak to disclose banking records concerning the contract, a city attorney sent a letter to the prosecutor and county commissioners, saying Nampa wants to change its contract to make sure none of its money goes into the prosecutor's pocket.

<em>From the Idaho Statesman</em>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openidaho.org/?p=232</link>
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		<title>Private profits violate public trust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canyon County Prosecutor John Bujak seems baffled about the controversy surrounding his private contract with the city of Nampa.

Let's clear up the confusion.

Bujak's contract treats $598,000 of public money like private money. It introduces profit as a motivating factor in dispensing criminal justice. It seems motivated to help Bujak's personal financial plight - and not necessarily stretch taxpayer dollars.


<em>Editorial from the Idaho Statesman</em>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openidaho.org/?p=257</link>
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		<title>Canyon County Prosecutor John Bujak&#8217;s &#8216;private contract&#8217; draws fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Bujak says he doesn't understand why his contract to prosecute Nampa misdemeanor cases has raised red flags with some county residents.

"I'm saving Nampa money. I'm saving the county money," Bujak said. "I would think people would be thrilled."

<em>From the Idaho Statesman</em>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openidaho.org/?p=231</link>
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		<title>Campaign attack groups fined for Sunshine Law violations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[daho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa has announced fines against two groups that launched last-minute campaign attacks against an Idaho Supreme Court candidate without following the disclosure requirements of the stateâ€™s Sunshine Law. â€œIdaho Citizens for Justiceâ€ is being <a href="http://media.spokesman.com/documents/2010/06/idahoCitizensForJustice.pdf">fined $1,300</a>, and â€œIdaho Citizens for Commonsense Solutionsâ€ is being <a href="http://media.spokesman.com/documents/2010/06/CitizensForCommonsenseSolutions.pdf">fined $600</a>; the latter group provided half the funding for the former, which paid for nearly $40,000 in ads and fliers attacking Judge John Bradbury and touting sitting Justice Roger Burdick, against whom Bradbury was running in last weekâ€™s election; Burdick won. 

<em>From Eye on Boise</em>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openidaho.org/?p=230</link>
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		<title>Federal courts approve fee break for records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People who access court documents electronically from federal district courts through the PACER system pay 8 cents a page for the privilege, but until this spring, they got the first $10 worth of copies in a year without charge. Now, the Judicial Conference of the United States has approved a change: Users will not be billed unless theyâ€™ve racked up more than $10 in PACER charges in a quarter.

<em>From Eye on Boise/The Spokesman-Review</em>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openidaho.org/?p=228</link>
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		<title>Crowd at McCall seminar studies open records, meetings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.openidaho.org/wp-content/uploads/McCallIDOG20100006.jpg"><img src="http://www.openidaho.org/wp-content/uploads/McCallIDOG20100006.jpg" alt="" title="McCallIDOG20100006" width="100%" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-237" /></a>
McCALL, Idaho - More than 60 people gathered for the IDOG open meetings and public records seminar in McCall on May 19, 2010, the 22nd such seminar held around Idaho since 2004.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openidaho.org/?p=235</link>
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		<title>Idaho group says school trustees met illegally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A government-accountability group says a southeastern Idaho school board held an illegal secret meeting over salary cuts.
 
The Idaho Freedom Foundation, a free-market advocate, vowed to lodge a complaint in state court against Pocatello's District 25 school board, whose trustees held a three-hour executive session Saturday morning, followed by a vote to cut administrative salaries by 6.9 percent.

<em>From the Associated Press</em>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.openidaho.org/?p=227</link>
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