In Michigan, “the Flint water crisis is the latest and most striking example of how holes in the state’s sunshine laws have sharply reduced transparency between citizens and elected officials,” Annie Byrnes writes. Even before the Flint story began, Michigan was already notable for its lack of transparency, coming in dead last in the Center for Public Integrity’s 2015 State Integrity Study. Brandon Dillon, chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, says: “I do think it’s arguable that if the public and the press would have had access to the kind of information that they do in 48 other states earlier, that this would not have dragged on so long.”
The post While covering the Flint water crisis, journalists and citizens in Michigan are calling for changes to the state’s FOIA laws appeared first on American Press Institute.
from American Press Institute http://ift.tt/1PzyrZ0
0 التعليقات:
Post a Comment