By Jim Zachary

March 18, 2015
As we recognize Sunshine Week, the public’s right to know is under assault throughout the United States.
State lawmakers are whittling away at Sunshine Laws in multiple ways, not the least of which is the effort to remove requirements to publish public notices in the place where communities are most likely to find important information they want and need to know — in the local newspaper.
Efforts to allow local governments the option of placing required public notices on government websites, or on third party sites that bury the information is poor, ill-advised legislation that should be viewed as a threat to and further erosion of government transparency.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.