Democracy Must Have Sunshine

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Our democracy is predicated on the notion that the governed should know what the governing are up to.

The Founders established a government of, for and by the people. They used the First Amendment to the Constitution to protect the freedom of the press, which has the duty and responsibility to report to the people on the workings of government.

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Democracy Must Have Sunshine

California has taken government transparency a step further than many states by codifying open-meeting laws, in the form of the Ralph M. Brown Act. That package...

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