Regional Right-to-Know Workshops - The Right-to-Know Law and Governmental Records (Moultonborough)
Contact: Ashley Methot
Contact Email: nhmaregistrations@nhmunicipal.org
Contact Phone: 800.852.3358 ext. 3350
WHEN: 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm, Tuesday, August 6, 2019
WHERE: Moultonborough Safety Complex, 1035 Whittier Highway, Moultonborough, NH 03254
COST: Workshop fee is $35.00 without publication and $55.00 with NHMA publication, A Guide to Open Government: New Hampshire's Right-to-Know Law.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Join NHMA's Executive Director Margaret Byrnes and Municipal Services Counsel Natch Greyes and who will share strategies to assist municipalities in handling governmental record matters arising under the Right-to-Know Law.
Handling governmental records requests requires an understanding of all aspects of request processing including: the requirements for availability, storage, electronic records, redaction, cost estimates, mandated access for certain records and appointments for review of records.
Guidance will be provided on determining what is a governmental record, and when and how access and copies of public records must be provided. This workshop will also address what records are exempt from disclosure, along with whether a record request that would require a search for multiple documents must be fulfilled or whether a request impermissibly seeks to create a record that does not exist. In addition, guidance will be provided on the retention of governmental records and how claims under the Right-to-Know Law are enforced.
There will be ample time for questions and answers.