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20020228
Giuliani's Mayoral Papers Private Status Contested.
from the Private-Public-Property dept. -By
Hermit
;-)
Some of public
servant Giuliani's mayoral papers are being declared 'private.' NY
State's Committee
on Open Government director, Robert Freeman, believes this isn't
in accordance with NY's Freedom Of Information Law. "No document
or record that had been or is now maintained by any agency of City government
may in my opinion be characterized as 'private' or 'belonging to' the former
mayor or any other person," director Freeman explains in an advisory opinion
written in response to an AP request. "Giuliani
Records Deal Questioned." -By Diego Ibarguen -AP via -FindLaw 2002/02/28
New
policies, however may foil NY's FOIL.
Comment?
Update 2002/03/01
Title changed, originally entitled:
Giuliani Mayoral Papers -- Public or Private Debate.
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Advocacy
- The Director of the "Gotham Center for New York City History," Mike Wallace,
has an e-petition, "Petition
to Keep Former Mayor Giuliani's Official Papers Public," available
to be 'e-signed' for those that endorse the New York Times Editorial, "City
Papers Belong to the Public" (20020126),
reproduced at the e-petition's page. -GothamCenter.org
Citations
20020228
"Giuliani
Records Deal Questioned." -By Diego Ibarguen
-AP via -FindLaw
/LegalNews
20020220
Opinion - "Statement
Before NY City Council's Committee on Government Operations on the Matter
of Rudolph Giuliani's Mayoral Records." ... "SAA is interested in this
issue because we think that Mr. Giuliani's decision to by-pass the Department
of Records and Information Services sends the wrong message to government
officials not only in New York but across America—that message being that
it is perfectly reasonable and ethical to treat public records as private
property. The records under scrutiny here were created during Mr. Giuliani's
tenure as mayor of New York City and are therefore public records." -By
Thomas Connors for The Society of American Archivists (SAA) -Archivists.org
20020214
"N.Y.
FOI official questions Giuliani's records deal." Director of NY State's
Committee on Open Government, Robert Freeman, said that "from my perspective,
since the documents are city records, and since all city records are subject
to public access conferred upon the public by the Freedom of Information
Law, the former mayor has no 'right' to determine which documents are accessible
to the public." -AP
via -FreedomForum
20020206
Opinion - "Statement
Delivered at the Giuliani Papers Press Conference."
-By Thomas Connors for The Society of American Archivists (SAA) -Archivists.org
20020123-29
"Hijacking
History: Rudy Heists City Archives to Shape His Own Legend." ... "Virtually
everything at the Fortress [where the city archives were moved to] is public
property, hijacked by the mayor in a secret agreement signed by George
Rios, the city records commissioner he appointed."
-By Wayn Barrett -VillageVoice
20020126
Editorial -
"City Papers Belong to
the Public." ... "The idea of a high elected official controlling his
own documents troubles many historians, archivists and journalists, harking
back to the days when Richard Nixon left the White House with truckloads
of papers and tapes." ... "Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has defended the
contract, must rethink his position. The mayor has the right to cancel
the agreement within 90 days. He should do so unless Mr. Giuliani is willing
to renegotiate." -NYTimes
via -GothamCenter.org
"Giuliani's
control of records alarms officials, historians." ... ""Why should
we trust any government official to be the custodian of his or her own
legacy or information?" said Mike Wallace, a historian and co-author of
"Gotham: A History of New York to 1898."" -By Diego
Ibarguen -AP
via -theithacajournal
20020125
"Mike
Troubled by Rudy Locking Up His Papers." ... "The treasure-trove of
documents — including World Trade Center files, 6,000 files of photos and
negatives, audiotapes of cabinet meetings, e-mails and telephone logs —
were transferred to a private storage facility instead of the city's Municipal
Archives Department, and eventually will be housed in a new Giuliani library."
-By JoAnne Wasserman -NYDailyNews
20020123
"Rudy
Keeps Hands On Public Papers." -By Jessica Kowal
-Newsday.com
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