{"id":899,"date":"2017-09-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/09\/28\/threat-of-eminent-domain-sparks-open-records-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:00:00","slug":"threat-of-eminent-domain-sparks-open-records-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/threat-of-eminent-domain-sparks-open-records-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat of Eminent Domain Sparks Open Records Lawsuits."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Tennessee, the Jefferson County Economic Development Oversight Committee\u200b, a group of elected officials, recommended\u00a0spending tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to begin development on an industrial megasite.<\/p>\n<p>Word \u00a0spread that the\u00a0Jefferson County Economic Development Oversight Committee was talking about using eminent domain to acquire land for the industrial megasite.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Records requests followed.<\/strong>\u00a0A Tennessee appeals court ruled this week that open records laws applied because the Jefferson County Economic Development Oversight Committee\u200b:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0&#8220;performs a governmental function&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;receives a substantial taxpayer funding&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;is significantly involved and regulated by the Jefferson County Commission and Jefferson City and Dandridge city legislative bodies&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cautionary Tale: Talk of eminent domain led to other legal issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizentribune.com\/news\/local\/appeals-court-jefferson-group-subject-to-open-record-laws\/article_1ffaab08-a39b-11e7-8ad0-1bed3551d953.html\">Citizen Tribune |\u00a0Appeals Court: Jefferson group subject to open record laws<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tennessee, the Jefferson County Economic Development Oversight Committee\u200b, a group of elected officials, recommended\u00a0spending tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to begin development on an industrial megasite.<\/p>\n<p>Word \u00a0spread that the\u00a0Jefferson County Economic Development Oversight Committee was talking about using eminent domain to acquire land for the industrial megasite.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Records requests followed.<\/strong>\u00a0A Tennessee appeals court ruled this week that open records laws applied\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,37,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-development","category-legal-trend","category-local-government-trend","category-open-records","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}