Ask the Editor — Shining the light, we hope

February 7, 2009

[edit] Ask the Editor — Shining the light, we hope

"One of our main goals in this newsroom is to make full and thorough use of two laws intended to make government as transparent as possible.

One is the Maryland Public Information Act; the other the federal Freedom of Information Act (or as we jargonishly call them, PIA and FOIA, pronounced "foy-ah").

Under these acts, the public -- that's right, anyone -- can make a request to government to reveal anything considered public information."

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