If citizens are expected to follow laws and codes those laws and codes should be immediately accessible and free on line.
This would apply to only approved minutes. Other info which has been voted on and approved by a groving body should be available within one work day.
IF IT IS READILY AVAILABLE
Government should be at least as efficient as the private sector
Would be impossible to comply with this
Depending on the work load and the request, this could be really unreasonable.
Sometimes the documents have not been completed or corrected in 24 hours, due to being busy or lack of staff, due to vacations etc.
24 hrs is too short a time to expect us to look for things that may not be readily accessible
Many times the clerk must confer with corporate counsel on a public records request. How many attorneys do you know that render decisions w/in 24 hrs.? Also, no consideration is being given the other myrid responsibilities of Clerk's which must be priortized at the descretion of the Clerk.
Some documents are readily available in 24 hrs and some are not. It also depends on the size of the office staff and the time they have to research the information.
As a County and Records Access Office, many of our departments are located offsite and time is required to forward the request to the appropriate party, allow time to complete and time to return said request. This legislation is assuming that any person's request has priority over any other tasks being performed in the office which holds the records. Unrealistic and unfair to office staff trying to meet day-to-day deadlines, I'm sure that is true for both municipal and County records access officers.
