{"id":275,"date":"2015-05-28T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/2015\/05\/28\/lion-member-the-lens-sues-new-orleans-over-public-records\/"},"modified":"2015-05-28T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T23:33:00","slug":"lion-member-the-lens-sues-new-orleans-over-public-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/lion-member-the-lens-sues-new-orleans-over-public-records\/","title":{"rendered":"LION member The Lens sues New Orleans over public records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Lens, led by a member of LION&#39;s Board of Directors, Editor Steve Beatty, getting access to public records in New Orleans isn&#39;t easy. So the <a href=\"http:\/\/thelensnola.org\/2015\/05\/13\/the-lens-sues-city-of-new-orleans-for-failing-to-follow-public-records-laws\/\">indie news site filed suit this week<\/a>, &quot;asking that a judge declare that the city has habitually violated public records law because it commonly takes weeks or months to produce documents that are supposed to be available immediately.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/thelensnola.org\/2015\/05\/13\/the-lens-sues-city-of-new-orleans-for-failing-to-follow-public-records-laws\/\">The Lens&#39; story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>State law allows government agencies three days to provide access to public records if they&rsquo;re in use. In the examples cited in The Lens&rsquo; lawsuit, the city took up to four months. The lawsuit also cites five unfulfilled requests dating back to January.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two years, the city has failed to provide records within the legal limit in about two-thirds of The Lens&rsquo; requests, according to the filing by Lens attorney Scott Sternberg of Baldwin Haspel Burke &amp; Mayer.<\/p>\n<p>Beatty said the nonprofit news outlet has dealt with this for years. &ldquo;The Lens is taking this to court because we&rsquo;re tired of the city simply not complying with the public-records law,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact is that the city doesn&rsquo;t comply and it&rsquo;s not even a secret. A lot of people are doing things that are time-dependent and we need the information to move ahead, it is imperative that information is received quickly so that our audience can make informed decisions in looking at policy,&rdquo; he <a href=\"http:\/\/louisianarecord.com\/news\/269121-the-lens-suing-new-orleans-city-hall-mayor-landrieu-for-allegedly-habitually-withholding-public-records\">told the Louisiana Record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thelensnola.org\/2015\/05\/13\/the-lens-sues-city-of-new-orleans-for-failing-to-follow-public-records-laws\/\">The Lens sues city of New Orleans for failing to follow public-records laws<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/louisianarecord.com\/news\/269121-the-lens-suing-new-orleans-city-hall-mayor-landrieu-for-allegedly-habitually-withholding-public-records\">The Lens suing New Orleans City Hall, Mayor Landrieu for allegedly habitually withholding public records<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Lens, led by a member of LION&#8217;s Board of Directors, getting access to public records in New Orleans isn&#8217;t easy. 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