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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Governor Brown wants to gut California's public
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Thu Jun 20 00:05:37 2013
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:54:23 -0700
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Governor Brown wants to gut California's public record law, to allow
government to hide whatever it wants
http://j.mp/16MDAVF (L.A. Times)
"Brown's answer to avoiding the reimbursement is to remove the mandate.
Under his legislation, passed as part of the state budget and awaiting
his signature, key provisions of the Public Records Act would be made
optional for local governments. What a deal! If abiding by a certain
law is costly or inconvenient, just ignore it. No penalty. Only
governments apparently can get away with that. Under current law,
local officials must respond to a records request within 10 days and
make the documents available electronically. Brown's bill would allow
local elected officials to ignore the requirements by casting a voice
vote once a year. If a records request was denied, the reason wouldn't
have to be explained. If approved, the documents could be released in
a basically unusable form, such as on old fashioned carbon-copy paper."
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Governor Brown wants to gut California's public record law, to allow
government to hide basically whatever it wants from the people. A
tiny fraction of the funds for his choo-choo train to nowhere project
would be much better spent keeping these records public and
accessible.
--Lauren--
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