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Granite State Report · Northfield, New Hampshire
Granite State Report · Northfield, New Hampshire
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Working tools for New Hampshire’s Right-to-Know law: the 91-A Request Builder, Redact, and the Record Room catalog. Free with an email subscription. - New Hampshire Law Says Redaction Software Counts as Good Faith. It Never Says the Software Has to Work.
RSA 91-A:4, IV(f) shields a public body that redacts with automated software. It never asks whether the software destroyed anything. Two free tools from this newsroom, and the three tests that tell you whether a black box on a public record is real or decorative. - RedactGranite State Report offers a free redaction tool designed to effectively remove sensitive information from documents. Unlike traditional methods, it converts documents into images, ensuring that original text is irretrievable. The tool preserves user confidentiality, allowing documents to be processed in a secure, private manner directly within the user’s browser.
- A Sole Proprietor Faces a Misdemeanor. An Incorporated Newsroom Faces a Felony.
Under RSA 106-F a newsroom faces a misdemeanor as a sole proprietor and a felony once incorporated. Its press carve-out turns on an undefined credential. - New Hampshire lost this case in 2008. In 2024 it passed the law anyway.
New Hampshire’s 2024 AI child-abuse-image clause needs no real child and no obscenity finding. The state Supreme Court rejected that reasoning in 2008 in State v. Zidel, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected it in 2002, and on Aug. 25 the Seventh Circuit refused to enforce the narrower federal version. The committee that wrote the clause called the missing element a loophole. - The Access Is Already Yours. The Attention Is What’s Missing.
New Hampshire law hands every resident the keys to every public meeting and every public record in the state. A 1999 movie explains why almost nobody picks them up. - New Hampshire Will Sell You a Record. It Will Never Build You an Index.
RSA 91-A:4, VII frees every New Hampshire agency from ever assembling an index of what it holds. Granite State Report published one instead. - Granite State Record Room
Every document Granite State Report holds, listed in one place, with the source and the rights holder named on each. The catalog opens with a free email subscription. Every record it lists is public and stays free. - Liable Is Not Guilty: The Difference Between a Civil and a Criminal Case in New Hampshire
A civil case and a criminal case answer different questions. Here is how New Hampshire splits them: burden of proof, who gets a lawyer, the clock, and what a win is worth. - RSA 91-A Redline: Every Change Since the Attorney General’s March 2024 Memorandum
Word-for-word redline of the seven acts that changed New Hampshire’s Right-to-Know Law, RSA 91-A, since the Attorney General’s March 2024 memorandum. - Seven Laws Changed New Hampshire’s Right-to-Know Statute Since 2024. Here Is Every Word That Moved.
Seven acts have changed RSA 91-A since 2024, the two signed in 2026 are narrow, the rule that can put a price on a large email request dates to 2024, the office that rules on fee fights has no one in it, and the attorney general’s guide predates all seven. - New Hampshire’s SNAP Work Notice Misstates Rules It Was Written to Explain
New Hampshire’s Sept. 8 SNAP work notice sets no deadline for the time-limit rules it applies, states its work exemption two ways, and contradicts a decision notice dated the same day.
