Growing secrecy limits government accountability
- Written by David Cuillier, Director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
When government officials block access to information, the public suffers.fstop123/E+ via Getty ImagesWhen I started covering crime as a reporter for small newspapers in the 1980s, I was assigned to walk to the police department lobby each morning and look through all of the previous day’s police reports, clipped to a board on the counter,...