A belated happy Sunshine Week to all! We’ve got the Foilies on the cover this week, the Electronic Freedom Foundation and Muckrock’s national hall of shame for government transparency fails. And it looks like Humboldt made the list this year for its response to a California Public Records Act request from the Journal. We’ll talk […]
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New Lease Requires Fair Board to Follow Open Meeting Law, Ferndale Enterprise Reports
The Ferndale Enterprise is reporting that the Humboldt County Fair Association will be required to follow the state’s opening meeting law and the California Public Records Act under a new lease with the county approved by the board of supervisors on Tuesday. Read the full story here. Related Stories
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New Fairgrounds Lease Leaves the Public in the Dark
In case you missed it, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors decided Oct. 16 that you don’t get to have input into how the county fairgrounds are operated or how public funds are spent to maintain them. The board voted 4-1, with Third District Supervisor Mike Wilson dissenting, to approve an eight-year lease with the […]
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County of Humboldt, Please End the Madness in Ferndale
In a few weeks, the fairgrounds in Ferndale will be awash with the smell of fry oil and children’s gleeful screams as the 122nd annual Humboldt County Fair gets underway. Meanwhile, the Humboldt County Fair Association — the nonprofit that runs the fair — and the county of Humboldt have been meeting behind closed doors […]
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UPDATED: Why is Eureka Being Squirrely About Handing over Public Records?
Editor’s Note: An update has been added at the end of this post. Well, this is awkward. You see, generally we at the Journal don’t talk much about our requests for documents made under the California Public Records Act. We just submit them and then write about the information we get back. That’s kind of […]
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Fair Association Ordered to Pay $45K in Attorney Fees
A local judge has ordered the Humboldt County Fair Association to pay more than $45,000 in attorney’s fees to a Davis lawyer who successfully represented Ferndale Enterprise Publisher Caroline Titus in her public records lawsuit against the association. Titus filed suit in April seeking access to the association’s financial records after multiple requests under the […]