[Scan-DC] Police silence on radio skirts law, suit says Brothers accuse LR, NLR of information act violations

[Bruce Harper]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Alan posted an interesting news article:

> A pair of Sherwood brothers have filed a lawsuit accusing the cities of North Little Rock and Little Rock of violating the state Freedom of Information Act by not providing them real-time access to police radio traffic.

Interesting tact to take to open access to the public airwaves. I hope
they are successful and that sets a precedent. I'll have to look later
to see what the Virginia FOI Act says, if anything. Perhaps that is a
route to take, make a pre-emptive strike by working the General
Assembly to add/strengthen language to head off across-the-board
encryption. This could be a good time to act, given everything going
on in Missouri the past week. State newspapers and the state Freedom
of Information council (or whatever the watchdog group is called)
would be good groups to head up this push.

Bruce in Blacksburg