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Mar 10, 2011
Tough Budget Times Don't Justify Violating Rights of Privacy, Due Process or Equal Protection
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Mar 09, 2011
Government Secrecy: Bad for Business, Bad for Maine
"It's like he's using a sledgehammer here when he could have used a scalpel," Leary said. "The blanket exemption means we can't even use the (access law) to find out who's advising him on this group. The point is, it's important to know who has the ear of the governor, whoever the governor is."
This isn't a partisan issue. Chris Cinquemani of the conservative Maine Heritage Policy Center said to the Press Herald:
"We believe that any information that might be raised in those meetings that would be considered confidential under the current law could be redacted from any freedom of access requests, and it's a little disappointing that the administration would choose to exempt these meetings from the Freedom of Access law."
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