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Lawmakers seek to make e-mail confidential
TCOG Executive Director Frank Gibson was quoted by the Knoxville News-Sentinel in an opinion piece about how some state legislators don’t want a conservative think tank to get hold of “screen shots” of...
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Free speech, press freedom at risk in Tennessee
By Frank Gibson Tolerance is in short supply nowadays. That is obvious in two situations where the First Amendment is under assault in Tennessee. Basic freedom of speech and expression and the right to...
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Gun rights advocates seek to keep public in dark on permits
From Executive Director Frank Gibson’s column in today’s Tennessean: The furor over Gov. Phil Bredesen’s veto of the so-called guns in bars bill would be comical if it and related issues surrounding...
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Legislative recap: Open government under assault; advocates ‘have a lot of...
The following is a column by Frank Gibson, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government. The two biggest surprises from the just-ended legislative session were the unprecedented...
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TCOG’s top lawyer takes questions on legal issues in the digital era
TCOG’s general counsel Alan Johnson, now with the Johnson Herbert law firm, was the subject of Q&A on digital media legal issues in a recent issue of Business Tennessee magazine with Ken...
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Open government in Tennessee: ‘Lots of challenges lie ahead’
Jack McElroy of the News Sentinel writes about the importance of TCOG, the price of freedom and how fighting for public records is a neverending struggle: TVA now refuses to provide the names and...
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Gibson on open government: Glass is half full
TCOG Executive Director Frank Gibson kicks off Sunshine Week 2010 with a column on the status of open government in Tennessee. Check it out in today’s Murfreesboro Daily News Journal. TCOG is now on...
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TCOG warns of threats looming in upcoming legislative session
Records pertaining to 911 calls and personal e-mails sent by public employees on government accounts may be among those legislators attempt to close off next year, Tennessee Coalition for Open...
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Gibson: Debate over online meeting notices shows ‘some politicians place a...
Frank Gibson, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, takes on in his latest column the push by some public leaders to change Tennessee’s law to allow public meeting notices...
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TCOG chief: Sen. Kelsey misguided on public notice bill
By Frank Gibson, TCOG Executive Director I remember my initiation into a college leadership society. Blindfolded and taken into the woods somewhere in Blount County, we were paraded one- by-one in...
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