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Committee advances bill to exempt DOCR employee work schedules from public records
Summary
The House Industry, Business and Labor Committee gave a due-pass recommendation to House Bill 1415, which would designate Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employee work schedules as exempt from public-records requests after testimony about a staff member sharing nursing schedules with a recently paroled resident.
House Bill 1415, which would add Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employee work schedules to the list of exempt records, received a due-pass recommendation from the House Industry, Business and Labor Committee after testimony that an employee had shared nursing schedules with a recently paroled resident.
The bill’s sponsor, Representative Emily O’Brien, told the committee that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOCR) is not considered a law-enforcement agency under the current open-records provisions and therefore its employee schedules are not currently protected. She said the bill “would add the Department of Corrections and…
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