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5 Ways COVID-19 is Impacting Public Records Requests
COVID-19 IMPACTSAround the second week of March, we started waking up to a local, national and global nightmare: coronavirus. The ability of every citizen to ask for and get information from governments is as fundamental a right as voting. So fundamental that it’s enshrined in the First Amendment and citizens can sue if they think governments haven’t complied with requirements.
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- Temporarily suspending PRRs
- Delaying PRR responses
- Closing physical offices to the public, staff, or both
- Shifting to teleworking
- Parts of the process that work well under teleworking and parts that don’t, e.g. paper records
