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Growing secrecy limits government accountability

  • Written by David Cuillier, Director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
Growing secrecy limits government accountabilityWhen government officials block access to information, the public suffers.fstop123/E+ via Getty Images

When I started covering crime as a reporter for small newspapers in the 1980s, I was assigned to walk to the police department lobby each morning and look through all of the previous day’s police reports, clipped to a board on the counter,...

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