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Where are champions for open government in online era?

Echoing concerns I'd raised about limiting information available on elected judges, the Dallas News' Reese Dunklin says legislation making personal information about state employees closed records limits accountability and would have prevented the News' investigative journalism on the Texas Youth Commission in 2007.There really needs to be more focused debate on transparency and open government in the online era, or in the current political environment we're going to lose the Texas Public Information Act as a practical matter over the next few sessions. It's already a shadow of its former self - particularly on law enforcement records - and is suffering a slow death by a thousand cuts. Every two years, it seems like a lot more bills are filed to close records than to make government more transparent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).