Let's put some needed teeth in state public records laws

From Sunshine Review

February 12, 2009

[edit] Let's put some needed teeth in state public records laws

"As one of the thousands of organizations or people filing federal Freedom of Information or state public access requests, we share in Indiana a frustration that even a favorable ruling carries no teeth.

And, well, a law -- any law -- is only as good as the apparatus to enforce it, starting with the penalties enumerated for violation.

SB 232, authored by Sen. Beverly Gard, represents an important step toward righting a wrong situation by, among other things, spelling out penalties for willful violation by public officials of public records and open meetings requests."

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