{"id":127655,"date":"2017-08-23T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=127655"},"modified":"2017-08-24T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T13:00:50","slug":"foster-water-resource-boards-delay-violated-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=127655","title":{"rendered":"Foster Water Resource board’s delay violated law"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has issued his opinion on whether the Foster County Water Resource Board unreasonably delayed providing requested records.<\/p>\n

The release says, the Foster County Water Resource Board received a request for copies of minutes for meetings during a certain time period where there was a discussion of a specific topic.<\/p>\n

Stenehjem says, \u201cThe board waited until its next meeting before directing the board\u2019s part-time secretary to search for records.\u00a0 A public entity\u2019s response to a record request cannot be extended until the next meeting simply to enable the governing body to give permission to release the records. The Board\u2019s delay violated the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the meeting, the board\u2019s secretary searched but could not find any minutes where the specified topic was discussed.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather than simply notify the requester that there were no records, the secretary copied all meeting minutes during the identified time period and sent them to the requester several weeks after the request. Although this office appreciates that the board\u2019s secretary was trying to be helpful, the delay in responding to the request violated the law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has issued his opinion on whether the Foster County Water Resource Board unreasonably delayed providing requested records. The release says, the Foster County Water Resource Board received a request for copies of minutes for meetings during a certain time period where there was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127687,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127655\/revisions\/127687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}