Editorial: Government agencies are holding our records and trying to keep us from seeing them; that’s not right
FOIFT2017-09-27T15:36:09-05:00Editorial Dallas Morning News Originally published Sept. 21, 2017 Here's an alarming new threat to the public's right to know: More and more government agencies around the country are suing private citizens who request access to public information, in order to keep them from seeing the records. Outrageous. There's no better protection to our democracy than our ability to hold the people we elect to public office accountable for how they're spending our tax dollars and conducting our business. These are our records, after all, and these agencies are stomping on citizens' right to keep track of what government is doing. [...]