Miss O'Brien warns the court that outsourcing transcript creation to third-party vendors could jeopardize the integrity and confidentiality of deposition records, raising serious legal concerns.

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#TX #CitizenPortal #DataPrivacy #LegalEthics #VendorAccountability #TexasTranscripts

City committee members are shining a light on repeated failures in street-lighting repairs, exposing how closed tickets often leave residents in the dark!

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#NY #CitizenPortal #NewYorkStreetLighting #QualityControl #VendorAccountability #PublicSafety

Lawmakers are tackling the hot-button issues of data privacy and mass surveillance as they draft a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting citizens while empowering law enforcement.

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#PA #CitizenPortal #DataPrivacy #VendorAccountability #PennsylvaniaLawmakers #SurveillanceReform

Chaos ensued in the Waterloo Local School District as deleted bus routes from Transfinder software left families scrambling and frustrated just as the school year began.

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#OH #CitizenPortal #ParentCommunication #VendorAccountability #TransportationIssues

Seattle's city officials are pushing for stronger vendor-ethics standards and improved supply-chain security to safeguard city data from vulnerabilities.

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#SeattleKingCounty #WA #CitizenPortal #CybersecurityStandards #VendorAccountability #SupplyChainSecurity

#VendorAccountability series: Charity Navigator was one of six platforms building #donation pages without consent — pulling the #donorrelationship onto their own #brand instead of yours.

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#NonprofitTech #DonorData #Fundraising #engine9

#VendorAccountability series: Donorbox, Givebutter, Fundraise Up, and Kindest all charge on top of Stripe's rate. Here's what that markup costs on the same $100,000 in giving.

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#NonprofitTech #Fundraising #engine9

LAUSD is tightening the reins on student data protection with stringent contracts that ban selling data and enforce strict breach reporting timelines.

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#CA #AIEthics #CitizenPortal #VendorAccountability #DataPrivacy

#VendorAccountability series: Mailchimp's own docs say it — unsubscribed and never-opted-in contacts still count toward your paid tier.

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#NonprofitTech #EmailMarketing #SaaSAccountability #engine9 #emailmarketing

#VendorAccountability series: Meta advertised "0% fees" on Facebook #donations for years, then quietly moved processing to PayPal. GoFundMe Pro won't publish a #nonprofit rate at all.

#NonprofitTech #Fundraising #engine9

#VendorAccountability series: the SEC, FTC, and 49 state attorneys general found the same thing — what Blackbaud told nonprofits about its 2020 breach didn't match what it already knew.

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#NonprofitTech #DonorData #engine9