JRN 430 - Fall 2022 Midterm answers
Access to Property✔✔A main crucial part of reporting.
Access to public property✔✔Police and other public safety officials may order
individuals (such as the press) to stay away from a crime scene or other event if their
presence could make it difficult for officials to carry out their duties.
Accountability and Transparency✔✔Policymakers must be held accountable to the
public they serve and clearly communicate their objectives, decisions, and methods
9 permitted exemptions (FOIA)✔✔1. National Security
2. Internal agency rules and procedures
3. Disclosures forbidden by other statutes
4. Trade secrets
5. Agency memoranda
6. Personal privacy
7. Law enforcement records
8. Financial records
9. Geological information
Records under FOIA✔✔- A record is anything in documentary form.
- An agency is not required either to create a record if it does not exist or to obtain a
requested record not under agency control at the time of the request.
Includes: computer-stored records
how many miles of freshwater in MI did Dr. Chavez talk about? (random bonus
question)✔✔3,288 miles
Four Privacy Tort Laws✔✔1. False Light
2. Appropriation
3. Intrusion
4. Private Facts
False light✔✔A privacy tort that involves making a person seem in the public eye to
be someone he or she is not. Several states do not allow false light suits.
Appropriation✔✔- Using another's name or likeness for advertising or other
commercial purposes without permission.
- Commercialization
- Right of publicity
Intrusion✔✔Intentionally intruding on another's solitude or seclusion
Private facts✔✔Publicizing private, embarrassing information
Access to Property✔✔A main crucial part of reporting.
Access to public property✔✔Police and other public safety officials may order
individuals (such as the press) to stay away from a crime scene or other event if their
presence could make it difficult for officials to carry out their duties.
Accountability and Transparency✔✔Policymakers must be held accountable to the
public they serve and clearly communicate their objectives, decisions, and methods
9 permitted exemptions (FOIA)✔✔1. National Security
2. Internal agency rules and procedures
3. Disclosures forbidden by other statutes
4. Trade secrets
5. Agency memoranda
6. Personal privacy
7. Law enforcement records
8. Financial records
9. Geological information
Records under FOIA✔✔- A record is anything in documentary form.
- An agency is not required either to create a record if it does not exist or to obtain a
requested record not under agency control at the time of the request.
Includes: computer-stored records
how many miles of freshwater in MI did Dr. Chavez talk about? (random bonus
question)✔✔3,288 miles
Four Privacy Tort Laws✔✔1. False Light
2. Appropriation
3. Intrusion
4. Private Facts
False light✔✔A privacy tort that involves making a person seem in the public eye to
be someone he or she is not. Several states do not allow false light suits.
Appropriation✔✔- Using another's name or likeness for advertising or other
commercial purposes without permission.
- Commercialization
- Right of publicity
Intrusion✔✔Intentionally intruding on another's solitude or seclusion
Private facts✔✔Publicizing private, embarrassing information
