Admin. Should Stop Fighting FOIA Reform
Mike Cavender, RTDNA: “We’ve found it necessary to write far too often about the lack of openness in the Obama administration. Now, on the eve of Sunshine Week and an appeal to the U.S. Senate by RTDNA and a coalition of media groups in the Sunshine in Government Initiative to support FOIA reform, comes evidence the administration worked aggressively in 2014 to kill similar improvement measures. The irony is that it took an FOIA request to get the documents that prove it.”
The Sunshine in Government Initiative, of which RTDNA is a member, delivered a letter to the House and Senate leadership in Washington opposing proposed changes in legislation that would prevent access by the public to analysis of security threats shared by state and local governments, whether classified or not, calling it “too broad and entirely unnecessary.”
