The criminal charges against a Blue Ridge weekly newspaper publisher and his attorney, charges based on their attempts to access public records, were dropped Monday, putting to rest a case that riled media nationwide and stunned the legal community.
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It is understandable that former Metropolitan Sewer District Board Chairman James Craig withdrew his transparency challenge after ethics charges against him were tossed aside.
The attorney no longer had to fight the agency he led as chairman for more than two years.
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Read More… from Opinion: All work-related MSD messages should be open
Thanks to controversy surrounding a student newspaper’s open records request, the public now knows that Jack White is currently on a “no banana” tour, that he prefers his guacamole “chunky” and that he doesn’t think much of journalism degrees.
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If a resident wants to know about a city construction project going on in her neighborhood, she can get information about it through an open records request.
If a parent wants to know how much school administrators are being paid in his child's school district, he can ask for that data.
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Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act guarantees “all persons, except those persons incarcerated in state or local correctional facilities … full and complete information regarding the affairs of government and the official acts of those who represent them as public officials and public employees.”
But the way the University of Michigan handles requests for such information flies in the face of this spirit of transparency and erects nearly impenetrable roadblocks for investigative journalists and concerned citizens alike.
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