Fine tune, but don't overhaul state Public Records Act
As the voters said when adopting the Public Records Act in 1972: 鈥淭he people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies that serve them.鈥
The people use public records to learn what their government is up to, so they can maintain control.
But under an evolving proposal in the state House of Representatives, records requests that are now answered promptly could languish at the bottom of a pile, and much of what government does could be hidden behind a wall of bureaucracy.
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George Erb