• WARNING! Low Visibility Conditions: Reportedly, 200,000 public records requests remain unanswered and some of them are 15-years old!
• Partly Sunny: Meanwhile, a FOIA upgrade has been proposed by Sens. Leahy (D - Vt.) and Cornyn (R - Texas) which targets so-called (b)(3) exemptions.
• Partly Cloudy: And all over the nation, public officials are learning that their text messages from official phones and e-mail from government accounts are a matter of public record.

A federal appeals court Tuesday temporarily blocked a judge's order requiring a former USA TODAY reporter to pay thousands of dollars in fines. Toni Locy would not identify sources who named former Army scientist Steven Hatfill as a possible suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks.