The public’s right to know and Freedom of Information is so passé…
by jonpelto
As Wait, What? readers learned, yet again, this week, policies and procedures put in place by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy’s Commission of Education, continues to prevent parents and public education advocates from accessing important public information about the Malloy administration’s education reform and privatization efforts. In this case the question posed to Pryor’s agency was a simple one, a question that any parent might ask, but the answer was never forthcoming.
As a participant and student of Connecticut State Government for going on four decades, I can say with certainty that no gubernatorial administration during that period has done more to undermine the sanctity of Connecticut’s once legendary Freedom of Information Act.
Cutting the Freedom of Information Commission’s budget, merging it into another agency and revealing a general disregard for its mission has done significant damage. And the