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Radnofsky: Forensic commission should resist expanding chairman's power

Democratic Texas Attorney General candidate Barabara Ann Radnofsky has a column on "Secrecy and Science" at Politics Daily focusing on the Texas Forensic Science Commission and the Todd Willingham case. She points out that Williamson County DA and Commission Chair John Bradley:claimed in a letter to the public written shortly after his appointment last October that "most state agencies with investigative and deliberative functions are protected by laws designed to keep such information confidential until a final decision is released. Unfortunately, the law creating the Commission does not include the protections." There is no presumption of confidentiality for the commission's work; the opposite is true. Bradley's commission does not determine guilt or innocence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 09, 2010 (boomark / email).