Extreme heat local government planning isn't usually framed as a clerk's-office issue — and that's not a gap in your preparedness. Emergency management, public health, and public works typically own this topic. But clerks already handle plenty that falls outside those departments' usual playbooks. Meeting continuity, public notice, and the official record all intersect with [...]
Meeting Records Are the Most Requested. Are Yours Findable? Public records requests are at record levels — and they're not slowing down. Federal FOIA requests topped 1.5 million in fiscal year 2024, a 25 percent increase in a single year. Backlogs grew 33 percent. The average response time for a simple request stretched from 39 [...]
Public records request volume has been climbing steadily for years, but the nature of that increase is changing in ways that matter for how clerk offices manage their workload, their documentation, and their risk. It's not just more requests. It's more complex requests, faster turnaround expectations, and a new category of high-volume, AI-assisted filings that [...]