Perspective
Oct. 19, 2012
Public record access suits end in fee awards
If enforcing rights to public records carries with it a risk of having to pay the government's legal fees and costs, the PRA will be a dead letter. By Peter Scheer
If you were looking for a way to sabotage America's freedom-of-information laws, you couldn't do much better than a legal strategy being pursued by government entities in two California towns.
The public school district of Willows, in Glenn County, and the town of Sebastopol, near Petaluma, have been sued, in unrelated cases, for access to public records - mails of government employees, primarily.
These government defe...
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