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Friday, May 18, 2012

OC To Begin Charging For Phone, Radio Records

With telephone records recently revealing questionable activity among City Council members, a policy was approved this week to charge for the release of records as well as in certain cases be reviewed by the city’s attorney for approval.

According to Emergency Services Director Joseph Theobald, during budget hearings he had proposed the town implement a more formal policy for the disclosure of telephone and radio records out of the Ocean City’s Public Safety Communications Center in compliance with Maryland law and the Maryland Public Information Act.

“We get a great number of public requests for recordings on an annual basis and right now we do not have a formal policy,” Theobald said.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Something smells about this. All funded by taxpayers, these are public officials using public property conducting public business. Why not simply put everything online? Is there something some clandestine branch of the government feels a need to hide? Why do citizens have to pay to find out how THEIR money is being spent?

Ahhh.... transparency at it's best.