This editorial from The (Tacoma) News-Tribune describes how access to public records allowed the public to learn of abuse of the elderly in adult family homes.
This blog piece by the TNT's Kim Bradford amplifies the point about how voluminous public records requests ("excessive" requests in the eyes of some government officials) allowed the Seattle Times to report on this important story. Darn, those "excessive" requests just lead to mischief like exposing the abuse of the elderly.
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- City of Everett Adopts New Open Meetings Procedures
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- "Special records access for media? No thanks"
- Olympian Editorial on Transit Video Bill
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- Spokesman-Review Editorial on HB 1317 (Cop Photo B...
- Monroe Finally Coughs Up Records--5 Years and Mayb...
- Wenatchee World Editorial on The Beating Open Gov'...
- Cop Photograph Exemption Bill Passes House
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- Sunshine Committee Survives ... in the Senate
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