Like you and me, only better
Tennessee legislature is exempt from open records law.
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January 3rd, 2005 at 10:59 pm
Your favorite tag line probably doesn’t work here. Without having read Tennesee’s open records law, I’m willing to bet double or nothing on the beer I owe you that you and I are exempt from the open records law, too.
January 4th, 2005 at 8:49 am
Probably not exactly but open government involves the people. And this can be used to exclude the people.
January 4th, 2005 at 1:00 pm
Sure, but you and I have the right to exclude people, don’t we? That was my point; open records laws aren’t about holding government to the same/similar standards as the people are held to. Quite the opposite: open records laws allow us to do something to government that we would never tolerate the government doing to us (and which presumably would violate the Fourth Amendment if it did). If the case was wrongly decided (and without having read the statute in question, I don’t know), then at worst, the court has failed to fully uphold the principle of “like you and me, only worse.”