👁 How can we keep government records accountable and accessible?

[JFWooten4]

Especially for public court cases implicating the law of the land. I find it meaningful that US citizens can comprehend the present "rules of the road." However, recent activity highlighted by 2600¹ shows that certain interests might have it otherwise. I recall a relevantly deep conversation with my mom (a lawyer) as to the inaccessibility of much case material without costly data subscriptions, not online through the SIP providers.

This request response placing a barrier to access outside of the jurisdictional region extends beyond my present interpretation of NY's FOIL authority.² I want to flesh this out in a defiant but compliant way. By this, I mean that I suspect our best approach is crafting a narrative objecting to material points while submitting on the nominal fiat payment, to be handled separately.

Just one of the documents we can add to a future repo. I believe this’ll help us make better, timestamped arguments on the basis that we can invest our efforts knowing they’ll be cited as references in later backlinks. And will give accordingly.

Footnotes

1. Are they on GitHub? Relevant, I’ll quote their present Discord profile description: "Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master." I’ve found this to be exactly spot-on when exploring hedge fund organization traditions. 💜 ↩

2. Massive credit to Cats for the pioneering work organizing these documents. They were so clever as to get the items to Secretary by registered mail. Seriously, just can't overstate the appreciation here for independently following down a rabbit hole that popped up in chat. 🧠 ↩

[JFWooten4]

We'll likely need a scanned copy of reply, presuming payment through the Mercury check-sending 🚀