One college professor is worried about the increasingly “intrusive” nature of conservative and libertarian-leaning activists on college campuses. David Theo Goldberg, a professor of comparative literature, anthropology, criminology, law and society at the University of…
Topic: FOIA
University of Michigan Stalls FOIA Request, but Takes the Money Anyway
From The College Fix: On Dec. 21 the university cashed the center’s $63 deposit required by law to start the FOIA process, but more than a month later it has still not fulfilled the request and…
Arkansas Law School Won’t Give Race-Based Admissions Data to Professor due to Possible “Harm”
Sounds like the university’s law school is trying to avoid transparency and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests: Without waiting for the courts to rule in a pending FOIA lawsuit from a professor seeking…
School District Bills High School Student Over $7,000 for FOIA Request
The details of why it would cost over $7,000 seems very sketchy: When Robbins “requested a list of which websites were blocked, any guidelines for which websites were blocked, and for the emails in which…
Arkansas is Stonewalling a Professor on Admissions Data
Campus Reform reported: A University of Arkansas at Little Rock law professor is suing the school for withholding public data that he claims will show that race-based admissions policies are a disservice to minority students….
Sound Familiar? Secret E-mails Released, but from Illinois University over Firing Controversial, anti-Israel Professor
As the College Fix reported: University of Illinois officials conducted official business and discussed controversies on email accounts that they didn’t make available for public records requests, the school admitted Friday. Freedom of Information Act requests…
Deconstructing Hillary Clinton’s Inbox
Late last month, a law professor at American University remarked upon the legality of whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton illegally removed official e-mails since holding that office. “It depends upon what the meaning…