When Michigan passed its Freedom of Information Act in 1976 to help ensure public access to government records, it included a couple of glaring exemptions: the governor’s office and the state Legislature. The Wolverine state is one of two (Massachusetts is the other) with such exemptions.
A package of proposals in the Michigan Legislature would fix this oversight. Continue…
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Read More… from Our Opinion (South Bend Tribune): A fix for Michigan’s public records law