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• Ariz. Supreme Court Sees the Metadata
  • via Law.com - Legal Technology
  • Should metadata be considered a public record like most other government documents? Yes, said the Arizona Supreme Court, overturning a lower court decision that denied a police officer access to performance reviews, written by his superiors, …
• Arizona: Public records - metadata
  • via Administrative Law Prof Blog
  • Usually we don't post substantive stuff about specific agencies and jurisdictions, but here is a new Arizona Supreme Court opinion that may be of interest. It opens with: 1 Arizona law provides that [p]ublic records and other matters in...
• Arizona Supreme Court Holds Metadata in Public Records is Public
  • via Law Librarian Blog
  • The Arizona Supreme Court holds that metadata in an electronic document which is also a public document is part of that document and can be examined by the public. David Lake is a Phoenix police officer who alleged employment discrimination...
• Ariz. Supreme Court Sees the Metadata
  • via Law.com - Newswire
  • Should metadata be considered a public record like most other government documents? Yes, said the Arizona Supreme Court, overturning a lower court decision that denied a police officer access to performance reviews, written by his superiors, …
• Arizona Supreme Court rules electronic data is public
  • via Reporters Committee News
  • The Arizona Supreme Court today ruled that metadata – information about the history, tracking and management of an electronic document – is subject to the state’s public . . .
• Courts - Arizona Supreme Court holds that embedded metadata in an electronic public record is subject to disclosure
  • via The Indiana Law Blog
  • The case is David Lake v. City of Phoenix. The opinion of the Arizona Supreme Court begins:Arizona law provides that...
• AZ Court Rules Public Records Law Covers ‘Metadata’
  • via Law In The News
  • AZ Court Rules Public Records Law Covers ‘Metadata’ :: Lake v. City of Phoenix (pdf)
• Arizona: Public Records Law Requires Disclosure of Metadata
  • via Ride The Lightning
  • To my knowledge, this is the first time that a state Supreme Court has ruled that its public records law requires the disclosure of metadata. The Supreme Court of Arizona issued this opinion on October 29, 2009 in the Lake...
• Arizona Supremes: Metadata Subject to Public Records Law
  • via E-Discovery Bytes
  • Arizona is suddenly on the cutting edge of e-discovery law, with a new decision from the state's supreme court. In what freedom-of-information advocates hailed as a groundbreaking victory, the Arizona high court held Thursday that when a pub…
• Ariz. court rules records law covers ‘metadata’
  • via Library Stuff
  • Associated Press – “Hidden data embedded in electronic public records must be disclosed under Arizona’s public records law, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case that attracted interest from media and government o…
• Metadata as Record
  • via Slaw
  • Tip of the hat to my friend and partner Stan Freedman, the Supreme Court of Arizona en banc this week held that if a public entity maintains a public record in an electronic format, then the electronic version, including any embedded metadata…
• Lake case sets important precedent that metadata is part of a requested document
  • via JURIST - Hotline
  • Todd Carpenter [Managing Director, National Information Standards Organization]: "Last week, the Supreme Court of Arizona issued a ruling overturning a lower court on whether file metadata must be turned over in a public records request. The…
• Arizona public records law applies to metadata
  • via PogoWasRight.org
  • In a decision that will be welcomed by transparency advocates but may induce handwringing in others, the Supreme Court of Arizona ruled that: Arizona law provides that [p]ublic records and other matters in the custody of any officer shall be …
• Metadata in Electronic Government Records Must be Released to Public, Arizona Supreme Court Rules
  • via Valley Fever
  • Phoenix police Sergeant David Lake may get to find out whether his supervisors screwed him over, thanks to unanimous pro-public-records ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court. As we related back in J...
• Public gains new access to government electronic records
  • via Le Templar: What I Know
  • Metadata (met-uh day-ta): Data about data. Metadata describes how and when and by whom a particular set of data was collected, and how the data is formatted. Metadata is essential for understanding information stored in data warehouses and ha…
• Bad news, good news -quick hits
  • via Common Sense Journalism
  • Ah, I love the Web. In one day you can find:The bad newsSam Zell says things are so bad in the business "nobody can survive."This takeout on Demand Media that ought to scare the hell out of every journalist. Sure, Demand, known to more people…