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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

One of the Worst Public Records Rulings Ever

The Bellingham Herald describes the ruling by Division II of the Court of Appeals yesterday that pipeline records are exempt from disclosure under the (very narrow) "terrorism" exemption. State and local government will probably run with this and we'll be amazed at how many things they now claim relate to "terrorism."

Here is the decision.

The authoring judge is Robin Hunt.