{"id":107825,"date":"2016-09-23T14:23:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T19:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=107825"},"modified":"2016-09-24T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T19:40:20","slug":"cooperstown-not-in-violation-of-open-mtgs-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=107825","title":{"rendered":"Cooperstown not in violation of Open Meetings Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-84753\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"StenehjemWayne445\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi) North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenjehem has found that the City of Cooperstown didn\u2019t violate the Open Records Law by charging excessive fees for copies of requested records\u00a0 for the time it took to locate records.<\/p>\n<p>Stenejhem&#8217;s findings come after a May 12th incident when Ron Dahl requested a copy of \u201call the meeting minutes\u201d of the Cooperstown renaissance Zone Committee along with \u201call the applications, both those approved and disapproved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cooperstown City Auditor gathered meeting minutes and explained that since the creation of the committee, the meeting minutes had been filed by individual projects, causing her to search through 19 paper files on numerous projects. The auditor informed Dahl that he would be billed for the records and it was explained that the process to find the records was difficult. Dahl requested an opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi) North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenjehem has found that the City of Cooperstown didn\u2019t violate the Open Records Law by charging excessive fees for copies of requested records\u00a0 for the time it took to locate records. Stenejhem&#8217;s findings come after a May 12th incident when Ron Dahl requested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107881,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107825\/revisions\/107881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}