{"id":1676,"date":"2011-08-03T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/in-accordance-with-the-law-susan-leavens.html"},"modified":"2011-08-03T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:14:08","slug":"in-accordance-with-the-law-susan-leavens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/in-accordance-with-the-law-susan-leavens.html","title":{"rendered":"In accordance with the law &mdash;Susan Leavens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Received today on <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/08\/when-officials-act-like-they-are-hiding-something-they-usually-are-vdt.html\"><br \/>\nWhen officials act like they are hiding something, they usually are.<\/a><br \/>\n-jsq<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_QbDyUeKkeuk\/SIS8VY3_9iI\/AAAAAAAAAtM\/ABi1wNbQlCQ\/s200\/diogenes.png\"><br \/>\n&#8220;You won\u2019t receive an open-records request if you answer questions<br \/>\nhonestly and in accordance with the law.&#8221; What an honest statement;<br \/>\nperhaps some of this too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGEORGIA CONSTITUTION<br \/>\n<br \/>\nARTICLE IX.  COUNTIES AND MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu\/conart9.htm\"><br \/>\nSECTION II.  HOME RULE FOR COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n(c) The power granted to counties in subparagraphs (a) and (b) above<br \/>\nshall not be construed to extend to the following matters or any other<br \/>\nmatters which the General Assembly by general law has preempted or may<br \/>\nhereafter preempt, but such matters shall be the subject of general law<br \/>\nor the subject of local acts of the General Assembly to the extent that<br \/>\nthe enactment of such local acts is otherwise permitted under this<br \/>\nConstitution:<\/p>\n<p>\n(1) Action affecting any elective county office, the salaries<br \/>\nthereof, or the personnel thereof, except the personnel subject to<br \/>\nthe jurisdiction of the county governing authority.<\/p>\n<p>\n(2) Action affecting the composition, form, procedure for election or<br \/>\nappointment, compensation, and expenses and allowances in the nature<br \/>\nof compensation of the county governing authority.<\/p>\n<p>\n(3) Action defining any criminal offense or providing for criminal punishment.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received today on When officials act like they are hiding something, they usually are. -jsq &#8220;You won\u2019t receive an open-records request if you answer questions honestly and in accordance with the law.&#8221; What an honest statement; perhaps some of this too. GEORGIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE IX. COUNTIES AND MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS SECTION II. HOME RULE FOR COUNTIES [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,324,48,40,2,20,88,133],"tags":[3071,8720,3992,8701,1553,8710,7,8799,8742],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-animals","category-code-enforcement","category-community","category-government","category-law","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-vdt","tag-animal-shelter","tag-code-enforcement","tag-criminal","tag-georgia","tag-inhumane","tag-law","tag-lowndes-county","tag-media","tag-vdt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}