The law also exempts records of individual handgun owners from the state Freedom of Information Law.
Another is that the grounds for exempting material from disclosure are narrower than under freedom of information law.
Jordan enacted a freedom of information law in 2007, and has faced the difficult challenge of effective implementation.
The records are the second batch of documents from the Freedom of Information Law request to the state Attorney General's Office.
His agreeing to hold back information from the public unless forced to do otherwise by New York's freedom of information law is a huge boon to Merrill.
Labour has promised to pass a freedom of information law at every election since 1974, and even had a bill ready for immediate enactment ahead of the 1992 election.
As shown by the experiences in Southeast Asia, however, challenges do not end with the passing of a freedom of information law, given that implementation often runs into notable difficulties.
In May of this year, the defence agencies got caught creating a database on citizens who had requested materials under last year's Freedom of Information law, including information on their political views.
Rather than wait for a promised freedom-of-information law, they are putting more documents on the Internet.
The president, Dilma Rousseff, is using a freedom-of-information law passed last month, originally aimed at uncovering atrocities under Brazil's military dictatorship, to expose the fat salaries of politicians and bureaucrats.
From the point of view of those seeking information this law has several advantages over the Freedom of Information Act.
In his memoirs, former Prime Minister Tony Blair was particularly outspoken about the Freedom of Information Act, a law introduced when he was in Downing Street.
Two experts FORBES spoke with, Arif Panju of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas and Alicia Wagner Calzada of law firm Haynes Boone, both proponents of the statute, say that the spirit of the law is designed to protect citizens and journalists with less cash from being bullied by interests with more cash.
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Tunisia adopted a Decree-Law on freedom of information in 2011, and published the circular regulating its implementation on 3 May 2012, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.
From the freedom of information viewpoint, this indicates how the law can provide access to video or audio material held by public authorities as well as the written word.
But, unlike the United States' supposedly much tougher Freedom of Information Act, most of the exemptions in the British law are subject to a public interest test.
There are calls for a law to implement the constitutional right to freedom of information.
"We're interested in having the court remind the Obama administration that it isn't above the law and that these records are subject to the Freedom of Information Act, " says Tom Fitten, the group's president.
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