We Can Still Put North Dakota’s Court Records Online, but We Need the Legislature to Weigh in First
Our current laws and rules may have been sufficient in an era where getting these records meant traveling to a...
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North Dakota Courts Take Down Expanded Records System
Our state Supreme Court justices, who are elected officials and in charge of administering the court system, owe us an...
Grisly Crime Scene Photos, Home Addresses, and Maybe Even Your Social Security Number Are Now Online Thanks to the North Dakota Courts
MINOT, N.D. — For some time now the State of North Dakota has maintained an online database through which any...
Fresh Off an Open Meeting Violation, Minot’s Mayor Is Trying to Be Sneaky About Major Changes to City Manager’s Contract
You readers are probably aware of the phenomena called a "Friday news dump." For the uninitiated, it's the tactic of...
For Some of North Dakota’s Small Towns Not Even the Law Is an Open Record
North Dakota has some potent open records laws because of these two foundational requirements of government: Every record the government...
Attorney General: City Violated Open Meetings Law by Holding Council Meeting Out of Town
Often entities of North Dakota's government, particularly local governments and committees and agencies, hold meetings far from their usual place...
North Dakota’s Public Officials Should Be Required to Record Meetings Even When They’re Closed to the Public
Most of you reading this probably don't live in Fargo, so you might not much care that the local park...
Attorney General: Fargo Park Board Broke the Law With Meeting at Which Former Director Joel Vettel Resigned
North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has concluded that the Fargo Park Board broke open meeting law with too-vague agenda...
Organizer of Referendum Petition Campaigns Says They Don’t Have Enough Signatures Yet
A citizen-led organization calling themselves Audit the Swamp has begun gathering signatures to refer three pieces of legislation, passed by...
These Fargo Elected Leaders Are Dodging Accountability and It Stinks
This post might seem like an intensely local issue, important only to people who live in Fargo, but as you...
