State Public Records Act Covers Metadata

Updated 3 months, 1 week ago

Source: http://volokh.com/

So holds the Arizona Supreme Court; the Washington Court of Appeals held the same a year ago. The decision applies to whatever metadata is stored with the document, including creation, modification, and access dates, the identities of the creating, modifying, and accessing users, and so on (at least unless some exception to the public records act applies).

The decision does not require that the computer systems maintain any metadata; it only requires the disclosure of whatever metadata ...

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Sam 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

“EMBEDDED metadata” So if metadata is not embedded in a record, but kept in a separate database, its not required to be disclosed?

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gwinje 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

Good day for good posts on the VC, but I second dearieme.

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dearieme 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

Does “metadata” explain why this blog has become So Slow?

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Dave 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

A small step toward my favorite “good government” proposal: that all legislative proposals be tracked and stored in a revision control system, allowing real-time public visibility and binding attribution of all changes.

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