ANA 2008 FOI Awards - Legislative


REP. JONATHAN PATON (Republican, Tucson - District 30 ) and REP. KIRK ADAMS (Republican, Mesa - District 19)are the Legislative Winners of the Arizona Newspapers Association 2008 Freedom of Information Award.The pair sponsored a package of four bills in the 2008 legislative session to provide greater transparency and public access to Child Protective Services proceedings and information previously kept from public scrutiny. They ultimately were successful: HB 2453 (Children; Open Court Proceedings) opens court proceedings previously closed to the public; HB 2454 (CPS Information; Public Records) opens CPS records to the public in cases involving the fatality or near fatality of a child/children, unless prosecutors could establish that the release of such records would cause a material harm to acriminal investigation; HB 2455 (CPS Files; Criminal Investigations) contains identical provisions of HB2454 with respect to the release of CPS records; and, HB 2159 (State Employee; Personnel Records) makes state employees disciplinary records, including an employees responses, available to the public. Representatives Adams and Paton worked tirelessly with numerous stakeholders throughout the legislative session in the drafting and shepherding of the entire package to final passage in the Legislature and then on to the Governor for her signature.







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