I rarely agree with John on National political issues but I think it's safe to say that government secrecy is the pathway to corruption and on that John and I will agree. So when John writes of the failure of open government in Greensboro...
"Once again there are only two ways this can be challenged, one is for someone to hire a lawyer and take the city to court, the second and the far more reasonable answer is for the majority on the City Council to decide that they were telling the truth to the voters when they said that they wanted the government to be as transparent as possible and to inform Shah-Khan that they want him to err on the side of openness."
To add to John's story, my own experiences with public records requests have been pretty much the same. And since the shake-up I have had no replies to my records requests.
"Once again there are only two ways this can be challenged, one is for someone to hire a lawyer and take the city to court, the second and the far more reasonable answer is for the majority on the City Council to decide that they were telling the truth to the voters when they said that they wanted the government to be as transparent as possible and to inform Shah-Khan that they want him to err on the side of openness."
To add to John's story, my own experiences with public records requests have been pretty much the same. And since the shake-up I have had no replies to my records requests.
