A judge found that the Chattanooga City Council violated the Open Meetings Act in developing its new voting district maps in 2021 and 2022. The city's arguments that closed meetings were simply "informational" and contained no deliberations or decision-making was refuted by evidence that included council members own comments about the process. In addition, the judge found that serial meetings held by city staff with each council member to get approval of a proposed map before presenting it in...| Tennessee Coalition for Open Government
The Tennessee Valley Authority refused to release information about its grants to cryptocurrency companies. It is now fighting a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from a journalist and University of Tennessee professor over it. The Knoxville News Sentinel published a story by Daniel Dassow about the lawsuit on Oct. 29. The story also details how| Tennessee Coalition for Open Government
Longtime WBIR-TV journalist John Becker of Knoxville has filed a court petition appealing a denial of public records held by the University of Tennessee from UT-Battelle LLC, which runs the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and which UT jointly owns. Longtime WBIR journalist John| Tennessee Coalition for Open Government