State Code on FOIA law (29B-1-3(f)) states: "The Secretary of State shall maintain an electronic data base of notices of requests as required by section three-a of this article. The database shall be made available to the public via the Internet... 1/4
...and shall list each freedom of information request received and the outcome of the request. The Secretary of State shall provide on the website a form for use by a public body to report the results of the freedom of information request...
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providing the nature of the request and the public body's response thereto, whether the request was granted, and if not, the exemption asserted under section four of this article to deny the request."
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Don't see anything in the Code that says you can put the FOIA database behind a firewall, or require registration to access it. But I'm not a lawyer.
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The story so far: To address the pandemic, W.Va. adopted a Harvard Global color-coded risk assessment map, which calls for shutting down a lot of activities when spread of the virus gets to dangerous levels (orange), and going full stay-at-home when spread...
...reaches critical levels (red). However, instead of applying it to all societal activities as intended, the W.Va. version was "tweaked" so it only applies to public schools and nursing home visitation.
Further "tweaks" counted outbreaks among nursing home residents and correctional facility inmates as one person, and tracked small population counties on a more generous 14-day rolling average.