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Residents and commissioners press county to publish records, track costs and consider a records custodian
Summary
At a Loudon County Commission workshop Oct. 20, public commenters and commissioners urged the county to publish more records online, track staff time spent on public-records requests and explore hiring a records custodian to reduce costs and improve transparency.
Public commenters and multiple commissioners at the Loudon County Commission workshop on Oct. 20 urged the county to put more documents online, clarify the public-records process and measure how much staff time the county spends responding to requests.
Speakers said routinely available information — enrollment, meeting materials and routine budget documents — is difficult to find on the county website and that residents resort to formal records requests when they cannot locate items themselves. “If you all would put everything on the website, then you would have a lot of records requests,” said JC Ackman during the public-comment period.
The issue drew follow-up from commissioners. Commissioner Gary Whitfield…
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