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Fending off attacks on open government

I wanted to mention a couple of notable open government cases that merit readers attention.First, updating the case discussed in this post, the 5th Circuit ruled that two city councilmembers who'd challenged Texas' open meetings act no longer had standing to do so because they're not in office anymore. They never reached the question of whether the Open Meetings Act violates the First Amendment rights of city councilmembers, but requiring elected officials to discuss public business in public is an utterly reasonable restriction IMO. Nobody's reducing the right of individual speech; instead the law limits deliberation between a quorum on the council on public business to open, posted meetings.Also, I'm pulling for Dallas News and the Attorney General against the Comptroller in a suit headed to the Texas Supreme Court over whether the state must release employee birthdates under the Public Information Act...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 11, 2009 (boomark / email).