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Saturday, November 05, 2005
Ind. Gov't. - Another look at the Democrats plan to access public records
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has an editorial today, titled "Open Government," that praises the state Democratic Party's Project Open Government, wherein "The party will submit public records requests to state agencies and monitor the state response." Some quotes:
Nobody’s being snowed. There is little doubt that there is more to it than an “initiative aimed at helping Gov. Mitch Daniels keep his campaign promise to improve public access to state records” as the party’s press release states. But Daniels’ representatives are suckers for taking the bait. The only appropriate response to any request that falls under the state’s open records laws is to politely and quickly fulfill that request.The ILB's first reaction to "Project Open Government" was "file this under bad ideas." Now that the first five requests have been posted at the Demo's web site, perhaps another look may be warranted.“We don’t think the people of Indiana will appreciate the state Democratic Party harassing the governor with records requests,” Jankowski says.
When asked about the allegation that the effort was really a political ploy meant to bombard state government with frivolous and nuisance requests for records, Jennifer Wagner, spokeswoman for the state Democratic Party, said, “We’re trying to avoid that at all costs. We’re doing this with the best intention and hope it wouldn’t be looked at in any other way.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 5, 2005 11:19 AM
Posted to Indiana Government