Open records/open meetings: Democratic notions
Governments have a lot of information, much of it hard to sort and difficult to access. While we’d like to think our governments’ records are always there for public inspection, that’s just Disneyland. I’ve worked for government at least three decades (even as a professor I was a state government employee, you know), and I’ve watched administrators hide information just because someone might read it. Duhh. As for meetings, you’d be surprised how often government employees and politicians sneak around so people won’t see them discussing the public’s business.
This is a primer on open record and open meeting laws. Every journalism professor thinks you already know this.
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