{"id":7496,"date":"2023-10-31T18:06:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T18:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2023-10-31T18:09:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T18:09:23","slug":"capitol-times-neutral-ombudsman-demystifies-public-records-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/capitol-times-neutral-ombudsman-demystifies-public-records-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Times:  &#8220;Neutral ombudsman demystifies public records requests\u202f&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Arizona Capitol Times<\/em> published a piece on the Arizona Ombudsman-Citizens&#8217; Aide office focused on our public records work and services.\u00a0 Below is a preview.\u00a0 Read the whole piece <a href=\"https:\/\/azcapitoltimes.com\/news\/2023\/10\/27\/neutral-ombudsman-demystifies-public-records-requests\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Joanne MacDonnell, the current Arizona ombudsman, described the office as a \u201cgiant flashlight,\u201d and \u201can umpire calling balls and strikes.\u201d Its public access attorney called the office, \u201cthe canary in the coal mine,\u201d and the \u201ceyes and ears\u201d of the Legislature and governor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As an intermediary investigatory agency, the Arizona Ombudsman Citizens Aide mediates public records and open meeting law compliance disputes between civilians, state agencies and other local governing bodies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The ombudsman has successfully run public records requests across the finish line and flagged agencies and entities out of compliance in published reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Capitol Times published a piece on the Arizona Ombudsman-Citizens&#8217; Aide office focused on our public records work and services.\u00a0 Click for a preview and for a link to the entire piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7498,"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions\/7498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azoca.gov\/staging\/7968\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}