Hello, All! Welcome to your class blog for the semester. This is where you'll post your work and have a dialogue about our classroom discussions. Well, let's get things rolling with that article I asked you all to read. What are your reactions? Post your brief thoughts here. Click here to read the article, "Survey: People want more government transparency, traditional media less likely to sue to get it."
I agree that the citizens of our country should have to right to see government information and to know what is going on behind closed doors. It is important to educate our citizens with their rights as an American. Each citizen has the right to access government documents and information when ever they want. "If ordinary citizens are becoming more aware of their access rights, and more assertive regarding them, it is indeed a reason to be gratified" says Kenneth Bunting. The resources are not there thought. People do not know where to find information and these resources. Highlighting a trend identified in an earlier assessment, the companion surveys by the two groups show that news organizations, hampered primarily by a lack of resources, are increasingly less inclined to bring lawsuits to enforce compliance under state and federal freedom of information laws." Because people do not know where to find information they do not know what is going on and if it is right or wrong, and when it is wrong, they could have a lawsuit against an organization, but because they do not know that information lawsuits are less inclined to happen. We need to educate our citizens and we need to make these public records more available.
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