A really hot topic is occupying the city council: to allow food trucks or not to allow food trucks, that is the question. Local restaurants are opposed, but the trucks are really popular and may revive downtown foot traffic. The council finally decides to consider a proposed policy. They instruct the manager to develop a […]
Posts Tagged ‘metadata’
Draft Records Under the Public Records Law
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012Tags:drafts, metadata, public records
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E-Discovery in North Carolina Courts: An Overview of Recent Amendments to the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011As noted in a previous post, the General Assembly recently enacted S.L. 2011-199 (HB 380), which, effective October 1, 2011, amends the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure (NCRCP) to address issues related to e-discovery in North Carolina state courts. (For the unversed, discovery is the pre-trial phase in a lawsuit in which each party can […]
Tags:e-discovery, e-discovery in North Carolina courts, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, FRCP, metadata, NCRCP, North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure
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Metadata, E-Discovery, and E-Public Records in North Carolina
Thursday, September 15th, 2011The “digital age” has been upon us for many years, but the legal system continues to struggle to keep pace with the fundamental transformation it has caused in the way people communicate and generate and store information. The discovery of electronic information in civil litigation (e-discovery) is one area that presents particular difficulties for public […]
Tags:e-discovery, metadata, North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, public records
Posted in Open Government, Public Records (Electronic) | 2 Comments »
Is Metadata a Public Record? An Analysis Under Federal FOIA
Friday, February 18th, 2011UPDATED: June 22, 2011. The court withdrew the opinion analyzed below on June 17, 2011. See National Day Laborer Organizing Network v. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (S.D.N.Y. June 17, 2011). Although the opinion no longer has any precedential value, Judge Scheindlin’s analysis of whether and to what extent metadata is part of a public […]
Tags:metadata, metadata as a public record
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Is Metadata a Public Record? Case Law Update
Thursday, October 21st, 2010A city resident forwards an e-mail to Councilwoman Leslie Knope. The e-mail accuses certain other city council members of improper conduct. Councilwoman Knope opens the e-mail on her home computer, which is set up to remotely log in to her public e-mail account. Councilwoman Knope later announces at a public meeting that she has received a […]
Tags:metadata, NC Public Records Law, O'Neill v. City of Shoreline, public record
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Is Metadata a Public Record? Part 2
Thursday, March 18th, 2010In my last post I defined metadata and summarized the three cases (in other states) that have addressed whether, and to what extent, metadata is a public record. I concluded that post by asking what we might glean from these cases to determine how North Carolina’s public records laws apply to metadata. The simple answer […]
Tags:access to metadata, application metadata, embedded metadata, metadata, metadata as a public record, metadata categories, retention of metadata, substantive metadata, system metadata
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Is Metadata a Public Record?: Part 1
Thursday, March 4th, 2010(Updated March 15, 2010) Is metadata a public record? There is not a clear answer to this question, at least in North Carolina. But that does not mean that public entities should ignore the question. In fact, public officials, particularly attorneys and information technology professionals, are well advised to stay abreast of this emerging issue, […]
Tags:embedded metadata, metadata, metadata as public record, substantive metadata, system metadata
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